Word: timedealing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The book's first scene is in some ways its best: Philippa Palfrey, 18, a privileged girl, adopted, visits a social worker to start the legal process of learning the identity of her natural parents. Philippa is beautiful and cold; long ago she guessed that the Palfreys had selected...
There are real surprises here, timed adroitly and written with fine economy. But in an alien context, they merely reaffirm James as a mystery writer. Hers is a tough, literal mind, an exacting memory that knows where files are kept and where administrators hide their short cuts. The free-floating...
Henry A. Kissinger is the only person ever to have served as both National Security Adviser and Secretary of State. For a 26-month period, in fact, he held both jobs simultaneously. Thus he is in a unique position to comment on Cyrus Vance's resignation as Secretary of...
The Israeli government received information that the PLO timed its Passover attack on the border kibbutz to coincide with and disrupt the ongoing peace talks between Israel and Egypt, he said.
Peter Mark Schifter has directed with the breathless tenderness of a Herschel Weinberger, though with considerably more precision. He keeps the trolley cars on their respective tracks, accelerating entrances and exits so that a group of seven is, suddenly, two, and the sanctity of an emotional confrontation is inevitably, often...