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In most texts (which used to be called books), narrator can also be a tricky word because the third-person voice doesn't necessarily have to be the one telling the story all the time. Speaker is a good substitute. Persona works in poems. But when there are a lot...

Author: By Beth L. Pinsker, | Title: I Sold My Soul to Derrida | 11/26/1991 | See Source »

Pity the poor TV innovator; his work is never done. Steven Bochco changed the course of network TV in the early '80s with his breakthrough cop show Hill Street Blues. He opened new areas of provocative subject matter a few years later with his yuppie drama L.A. Law. Those hits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Divorce, Bochco-Style | 11/25/1991 | See Source »

Many therapists are cross-fertilizers, picking up bits of different disciplines. Greer Jonas does reflexology with some aromatherapy thrown in; she is also licensed for Swedish massage. Jonas works in her clean, well- lighted apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Hanging crystals tinkle before an open window. Brown and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why New Age Medicine Is Catching On | 11/4/1991 | See Source »

Jewett said that the tricky problem of political correctness is one that University administrators are still grappling with.

Author: By Anna D. Wilde, | Title: Jewett Discusses Curriculum | 10/26/1991 | See Source »

The demise of the initials U.S.S.R. will mean that one classic Beatles tune will become archaic. But initials are tricky things. The Soviets (or ex- Soviets, as the case may be) should be careful not to name their country the Basically United Sovereign Territories.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S.S.R. Or B.U.S.T. | 9/9/1991 | See Source »

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