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...Tolstoy says, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way, so too each child who sleeps through class and cheats on exams has his or her personal story to tell. Suzanne Somers' is about growing up with an alcoholic father. Somers, who played the voluptuous nit-brain Chrissy on the TV hit Three's Company, describes family meals that ended in a cascade of broken dishes and foul-mouthed rages that left her cowering in the closet. As she got older she ran away in other ways: school problems; an early, unwanted pregnancy and marriage; and a bad-check...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bookends: Jan. 11, 1988 | 1/11/1988 | See Source »

What does Art Buchwald have in common with Leo Tolstoy? Samuel Taylor Coleridge with Mary McCarthy? Not to mention Tom Sawyer, Oliver Twist, Tarzan, Superman and Little Orphan Annie. Right: they all lost parents at an early age and had to confront the world more or less on their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: On Their Own ORPHANS: REAL AND IMAGINARY | 8/10/1987 | See Source »

More than from Tolstoy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hot Barracko From Zima Junction ALMOST AT THE END | 5/25/1987 | See Source »

...sang in train cars about Count Tolstoy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hot Barracko From Zima Junction ALMOST AT THE END | 5/25/1987 | See Source »

...across to the voters. But all such plans died with the news of the Washington Post's potential bombshell. Hart conceded the inevitable when he told Bill Shore early Thursday morning, "Let's go home." On the charter flight back to Denver, Hart sat by himself and read the Tolstoy novel Resurrection. Perhaps the intense spiritual faith of Tolstoy's later years provided comfort. Perhaps Hart wanted to remind himself that he still had a life outside politics. But there would be no resurrections for Hart's political career, at least not in 1988. Hart was a candidate who dared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fall from Grace | 5/18/1987 | See Source »

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