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...Levchenko felt that he had to unburden himself . . . disgorge all he had thought and done, all that happened to turn his stomach and change his heart...
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...December 26, 1983] Sojourners A wimp goes to the talkies: An Officer And A Gentleman is a troubling movie...
...So well does he understand that Barron now gives us not only the fascinating odyssey of a major defector, but what amounts to a brand new manual...
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...February 9, 1984] Vanity Fair Another inscrutable communique from Susan Sontag, Inc.: "I, who would be nothing without the Russian nineteenth century . . . . " CamuS declared, in 1958, in a letter of homage to Pasternak--one o f the constellation of magnificent writers whose work, along with the annals of their tragic destiny preserved, recovered, discovered in translation over the past twenty-five years, has made the Russian twentieth century an event that is (or will prove to be) equally formative and, it being our century as well, far more importunate, impinging...
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...National Review "A masterpiece of investigative reporting...
...Robert Conquest "In terms of hard, geopolitical importance, this book outranks and helps illuminate Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago...
...October 19831 The Bergen Evening Record The Honeymoon's over for two New Age pioneers: I'm a gay man and have had a wonderful, secure, I think, relationship with a man for almost two years...
...I've read and heard John Kennedy, but I don't think he's in a class with Reagan...
...Mario Cuomo, governor of the great state of New York, shows that the thought of Jesse Jackson can be contagious: I think Reagan has a tremendous, maybe unique, capacity to communicate...
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...New York Times "Meticulously documented . . . Levchenko has spilled the KGB's beans all over the floor...
...What I resent is that he's not used properly his great gift . . . . Reagan has great vulnerability...
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...August 30, 19831 Time Ernest's granddaughter Mariel Hemingway comments on her art: I hope people won't think this movie is about my breasts...
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...It was so accurate that the KGB had it translated into Russian, and used it as a training manual for the top brass...
...As I was lying there, really, across their feet, I felt or "heard" with my feelings, the distinct request from them that I had to remove myself...
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...Human Events "As exciting as a dozen thrillers...
...Sydney Lumet, director of the Rosenberg thriller Daniel laments the state of Yankee politics and the passing of the two private citizens who made perhaps the greatest contribution ever to the spread of nuclear arms: Lumet said he knew practically nothing about the Rosenberg case at the time and still doesn't...
...For as Barron points out, "It is impossible to understand the Soviet Union without understanding the KGB and its transcendent role in Soviet policy and society...
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...December 1982] The Observer A youthful Anthony Lewis seized by the Muse poetically describes life and a "non-advocacy campus group" with all the answers: Imagine if everyone in the United States and the Soviet Union had a gun strapped to his or herahead...
...He was echoing the opinion of the International Herald Tribune ("Encounter...
...He's spent a lifetime taking complex truths and reducing them to simple, exciting language...
...December 29, 19831 Esquire From Movieland, Brian De Palma tells all: "I always look for the corrosive side of everything," he says...
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...A narrative that sucks the reader in the way a vacuum cleaner sucks confetti Long after the ruling cliques of today's culture are dissolved, books like Barron's will tell the truth of our time...
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...Alice Walker, novelist, apprises the convex intelligentsia of her recent artistic researches in the dirt: Some years ago a friend and I decided to go into the countryside to listen to what the Earth was saying...
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...Someday, their daughter is going to get raped by this social disorientation . . . . [Jesse Jackson] has more ability by instinct than most of us get byeducation...
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...October 4, 19831 The Anchorage Daily News An unblemished record is preserved by the sovereign action o f a high-minded Alaskan potentate: Senator Ted Kennedy did not commit a crime when he allowed his teen-age son to remove a tusk from the state walrus sanetuary at Round Island earlier this month, an investigation by the Anchorage district attorney's office has concluded...
...Critically acclaimed and widely accepted by the public, it is the artistic standout of a handful of recent films whose themes promote a renewed acceptance of the military in our society . . . . The f i l m ends with a newly commissioned and white-uniformed Zach carrying Paula out of her paper factory (to the cheers of her fellow workers...
...This archetypal happy ending engages the viewer--to the point of tears, and we feel happy for this young couple...
...faces today . . . . It is long past time that citizens took the issue of nuclear weapons (i.e., the fate of the earth) out of the hands of the "experts," the technologists, the generals and the politicians...
...Those people want everything to be an extension of their own reality...
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...Reagan is going to allow people to vote against their own consciences...
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...January 1984] The New York Times A rap across the knuckles for an obdurate Times writer from Miss Rebecca Zorach, standing on the threshold of a happy feminist life: To the Editor: In 1976, when I was seven years old, I wrote to The Times to point out an example of sexism in an article on dinosaurs...
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