Word: subjectively
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RICHARD BURTON: A LIFE by Melvyn Bragg (Little, Brown; $22.95). This meticulous biography includes generous quotations from the subject's letters and a 350,000-word private diary; the result is a portrait of a vivid actor who approached language with the same passion he lavished on Elizabeth Taylor...
...redolent in his manner as he discusses economic abstractions. Yet he harbors what he calls primitive views of patriotism. He was comfortable, as a Bush campaign adviser, arguing for continued emphasis on the Pledge of Allegiance issue when even his friend, Campaign Chairman James Baker, wanted to change the subject...
...Bring up the "Darman book," and its author wants to change the subject. A talented writer who enjoys the craft, Darman writes occasional essays, sometimes leavening abstruse material with sports metaphors. He began a major analytical book on the process of governance 14 years ago, during one of his brief recesses from public service. He treated the work as a secret, showing pieces of it only reluctantly to a few friends. Elliot Richardson, his first Washington mentor, recalls it as "marvelously prescient and penetrating," in part because of Darman's gift for dispassionate analysis. Says Richardson: "Dick never allowed...
Lacayo has moonlighted as the photography critic since 1986, when he helped persuade TIME's editors that the magazine should devote more coverage to the art. His wide choice of subject matter has included the off-center visions of Garry Winogrand and the embracing eye of LIFE's Alfred Eisenstaedt. Yet Lacayo prefers to make his own impressions with words rather than film. "I don't take photographs," he notes. "I take snapshots." After all, when he wants to look at enduring images, all he needs to do is reach for that beat-up old Cartier-Bresson volume that...
While Americans would welcome harsher gun-control measures, they are skeptical and ambivalent on the subject. Most do not want to ban gun possession entirely; 84% say people have a right to own guns, perhaps because 53% feel they are inadequately protected by police. As for semiautomatic weapons, 51% would make civilian ownership of these guns illegal. In any case, 48% believe new restrictions would not reduce the amount of violence...