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It is the kind of snide denunciation usually reserved for dim-witted Hollywood moguls, not the sort of jab one would expect to find in a religious newspaper. But in the current issue of the National Catholic Reporter, columnist Tim Unsworth lambastes Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz as an incompetent cleric who...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WRATH OF THE BISHOP | 5/27/1996 | See Source »

"Some of us were expendable," says Comley. "That got me going." For years he was known for publicity stunts--hiring planes to trail banners above the U.S. Capitol--and emotional outbursts at the press conferences of politicians. The NRC barred him from its public meetings until a judge ordered the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NUCLEAR WARRIORS | 3/4/1996 | See Source »

WHEN HE STARTED TAKING PICtures around New York City in the late 1940s, Roy DeCarava stepped into the most irresistible role that photography offers: a walker in the city, a camera-equipped descendant of the quick-witted literary strollers that the French called flaneurs. Looking out for the knotty surprises...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PHOTOGRAPHY: THE SHADOWS KNOW | 2/12/1996 | See Source »

DURING ITS 54 WEEKS ON THE air, the WB netlet has produced the sort of programming that requires viewers to suspend disbelief far too strenuously. The sitcom Kirk, for example, asks us to accept that Kirk Cameron could be a Greenwich Village illustrator raising three children and dating a doctor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: GARDEN OF GOOD AND TRASHY | 2/12/1996 | See Source »

To my long list of American heroes I add Captain O'Grady. But he comes only after his parents, who raised a courageous, compassionate, resourceful and quick-witted son. Zan Jedde Haleem Berkeley Lake, Georgia

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 10, 1995 | 7/10/1995 | See Source »

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