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IssueVol. 121 Issue 019 (November 4 1994)
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Paid articleCorrespondence
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...
Paid articleEditorial
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...
Paid articleAnne Porter
Deen, Rosemary
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...
Paid articleA coroner's report
Roller, Christopher F.
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...
Paid articleDostoevsky lives
'Grady, Desmond O
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...
Paid articleOne troubled family
Gaffney, Edward McGlynn Jr.
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...
Paid articleThe child comes first
McCarthy, Abigail
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...
Paid articleBlood & grace
Arnold, Edwin T.
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...
Paid articlePoetry
Porter, Anne
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...
Paid articleScreen
Alleva, Richard
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...
Paid articleMedia
McConnell, Frank
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...
Paid articleA shot across the brow
Marty, Martin E.
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,"...
Paid articleArrogant Capital, Kevin Phillips/ Demosclerosis, Jonathan Rauch
Byrnes, Timothy A.
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...
Paid articleVinegar Hill, A. Manette Ansay
Toolan, David
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...
Paid articlePure Heart, Enlightened Mind, Maura O'Halloran
Elie, Paul
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...
Paid articleDr. Johnson and Mr. Savage, Richard Holmes
Wheeler, Edward T.
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...
Paid articleTrue North, Jill Ker Conway
Marget, Madeline
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...
Paid articleDictatorship of Virtue, Richard Bernstein
Worth, Robert F.
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...
Paid articleReligious booknotes
Cunningham, Lawrence S.
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...
Paid articleCinéma-vérité
Morelli, Mark
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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