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The title comes from her childhood name, stripped away -- she was told "Anna Marie is dead" -- by John and Ethel Ross, who took her from her alcoholic father and hapless mother and forged her career. They abused her mentally, physically and sexually, living it up on her earnings while denying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bookends: Sep. 7, 1987 | 9/7/1987 | See Source »

Across the Netherlands, from the busy Rotterdam docks to the gleaming electronics plants of Eindhoven, the Dutch, who have always loved a rousing moralistic argument, are indulging in just that heady passion. The debate, which focuses on the proper balance between freedom and license, is echoed in all the industrialized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Netherlands Tolerance Finally Finds Its Limits | 8/31/1987 | See Source »

The son of an unwed teenager, Jesse learned early that his real father, Noah Robinson, lived right next door. This was in Greenville, S.C., and big Noah was a local hero, a handsome, hardworking man no one dared challenge. If pushed too far, Noah Robinson would flatten adversaries, even whites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign Portrait, Jesse Jackson: Respect and respectability | 8/17/1987 | See Source »

The heart of the operation is the PTL cable network, which reaches 13.5 million households over 171 stations and until last month featured the chatty Jim and Tammy Show. On the hourlong daily program, Jim continually pleaded -- and sometimes Tammy wept through enormous fly-whisk eyelashes -- for funds to support...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Evangelism: TV's Unholy Row | 4/6/1987 | See Source »

But others sharply dispute this notion. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan of ! New York, who brought attention to the plight of the black family in a controversial report two decades ago, called the Administration study "less a policy paper than a tantrum. They're not writing from facts. This is just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Today's Native Sons | 12/1/1986 | See Source »

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