LOOKING TO 1986 French Socialists in Repeat BY NORMAN BOWEN Paris Looking across 1985 to the legislative elections that must be held by June 1986, France's government now sees itself suffering...
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Countdown *84 BEYOND THE REAGAN LANDSLIDE BY GUS TYLER Ronald Reagan's landslide has been widely attributed to his skill at projecting a persuasive personality: The old trouper knows how to win...
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States of the Union PAYBACKS FROM THE POOR BY RICHARD J. MARGOLIS In an odd reversal of role and purpose, the Social Security Administration a few years ago launched a refund campaign aimed at...
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Writers & Writing FACTS ARE NOT ENOUGH BY BARRY GEWEN Ask the average person to describe what historians do, and you are likely to be told they collect facts about the past. Historians know...
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Edna O' Brien's Two Worlds A Fanatic Heart By Edna O'Brien Farrar Straus Giroux 461 pp. $17.95. Reviewed by Oliver Conant Contributor, "Contact II," "American Book Review" Half the stories in...
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All in the Family Prince Albert: A Biography By Robert Rhodes James Knopf. 299 pp. $17.95. Reviewed by Roger Draper Prince Albert , Queen Victoria's beloved husband, was the first royal...
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On Television MIXED RETURNS BY MARVIN KITMAN The big loser on election night was not Walter Mondale, as most people have been led to believe, but Dan Rather of CBS News. The nation's leading...
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On Dance CLASSICAL MOVEMENTS AND MORE BY LAURA A JACOBS I know noble accents And lucid, inescapable rhythms; But I know, too, That the blackbird is involved In what I know. wallace Stevens...
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Dear Editor Stoppard Tom Stoppard would certainly not accept Barry Gewen's characterization of him as an emigre writer ("Eastern Lights," NL, October 15). He left Czechoslovakia when he was only a...
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