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Vol. 121 Issue 019 (November 4 1994)
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••Cover Page••
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Correspondence
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CORRESPONDENCE Carlin stood me up Reston, Va. To the Editors: I don't make a habit of reading magazine articles while standing up. But today, as I was leaving the house to shop, I noticed...
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Editorial
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At home with sex Sexual revolutions, like thin or wide ties, baseball strikes, and popes, come and go. E.B. White wrote of the sexually tumultuous 1920s that "the literature of the period...
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Anne Porter
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Deen, Rosemary
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Anne Porter: Different world, different words n the winter of 19791 saw my first Anne Porter poems, one of which we chose right away for the Christmas issue. Since then, I believe, most of her...
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A coroner's report
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Roller, Christopher F.
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4 HEALTH-CARE REFORM A CORONER'S REPORT MAYBE THERE'S A LIFE AFTER DEATH "Who would you trust your health with—an M.B.A. or an M.D.?" asked an "educational" advertisement placed in...
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Dostoevsky lives
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'Grady, Desmond O
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DOSTOEVSKY LIVES APOSTLE OF INTERIOR FREEDOM he tea in Dostoevsky's glass is still brewed daily, as if it had to sustain him through a strenuous night of writing. Even the doorbell is...
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One troubled family
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Gaffney, Edward McGlynn Jr.
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OF SEVERAL HINDS Edward Gaffney, Jr. ONE TROUBLED FAMILY TRYING TO OUTLIVE THE PAST gainst the bloody background of "the Troubles" that have been raging in Northi ern Ireland over...
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The child comes first
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McCarthy, Abigail
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THE CHILD CONES FIRST WHEN FAMILIES CAN'T BE FIXED r ashington has been in a mild uproar since late September over a series of articles in the Washington Post. The result of four years of...
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Blood & grace
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Arnold, Edwin T.
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BLOOD & GRACE THE FICTION OF CORMAC McCARTHY EDWIN T. ARNOLD , ormac McCarthy's novels compose an extended journey. His characters travel the mountain roads and forests of east Tennessee, the...
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Poetry
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Porter, Anne
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POEMS Anne Porter Old in the City You grow geraniums And crochet baby-bonnets But you walk slowly Every day more slowly As if there were a rock In your poor belly You stay away from...
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Screen
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Alleva, Richard
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ADJUSTING TO HELL 'SHAWSHANK' & 'BLUE SKIES' ome wise guy might dismiss The Shawshank Redemption as Son of Cool Hand Luke. So it is, but it's more than that. Frank Darabont's adaptation of...
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Media
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McConnell, Frank
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TWICE-TOLD TALES WHY 'LAW & ORDER' WORKS I am, and I admit it, a bear of rather little brain, which may be why it took a stint of jury duty for me to realize what a really good show—and what...
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A shot across the brow
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Marty, Martin E.
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1 hen poll-takers ask a hundred typical Americans to describe themselves religiously, onefourth of them say they are Catholic. Onefourth define themselves as "[Mainstream] Protestant,"...
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Arrogant Capital, Kevin Phillips/ Demosclerosis, Jonathan Rauch
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Byrnes, Timothy A.
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The 'People': Victims or villains? or a number of years analysts of American government argued that the stalemates and blockages that characterized the legislative and policy processes in...
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Vinegar Hill, A. Manette Ansay
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Toolan, David
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FAMILY VINAIGRETTE VINEGAR HILL A. Manette Ansay Viking, $21.95, 236 pp. David Toolan elcotne to the less charming side of Garrison Keillor country, 512 Vinegar Hill, home of Fritz and...
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Pure Heart, Enlightened Mind, Maura O'Halloran
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Elie, Paul
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She wants to be lost in him, but he vomits her out again and again, and each time he asks more from her before he permits her return.... There is too much of Ellen in Ellen for God; she sticks...
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Dr. Johnson and Mr. Savage, Richard Holmes
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Wheeler, Edward T.
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DR. JOHNSON'S NEW BOSWELL DR. JOHNSON AND MR. SAVAGE Richard Holmes Pantheon Books, $23, 272 pp. Edward T. Wheeler t the very end of his Dr. Johnson and Mr. Savage Richard Holmes points...
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True North, Jill Ker Conway
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Marget, Madeline
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A WOMAN OF PARTS TRUE NORTH Jill Ker Conway Alfred A. Knopf, $23, 250 pp. Madeline Marge! his second volume of Jill Ker Conway's memoirs is an instructive, and often vivid, travelogue of her...
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Dictatorship of Virtue, Richard Bernstein
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Worth, Robert F.
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E PLURIBUS, PLURES DICTATORSHIP 0F VIRTUE Multiculturalism and the Battle for America's Future Richard Bernstein Alfred A. Knopf, $25, 367 pp. Robert F. Worth ulticulturalism, at...
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Religious booknotes
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Cunningham, Lawrence S.
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RELIGIOUS BOOKNOTES tyred in El Salvador in 1980). Zagano concludes with a selected bibliography for each of the persons anthologized in the book. As befits a professor of communications...
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Cinéma-vérité
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Morelli, Mark
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Cin\'ema-v\'erit\'e MARK MORELLI I liked it when the movie theater was the place to see movies. I went enthusiastically, even if the movie was mediocre. It was good to get out. In Annie...
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Vol. 121 Issue 020 (November 18 1994)
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