Washington Notebook BY DANIEL SCHORR The On-Site Inspection Factor Maybe people who live in glasnost houses shouldn't throw stones. Nonetheless, Soviet Party General Secretary Mikhail S....
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FROM PRETORIA TO POLLARD Triple Trouble in Israel By Eliahu Salpeter Tel Aviv Israel finds itself these days in probably the most difficult—and certainly the most unpleasant—situation...
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Italy's Reaction to 'Glasnost' BY SILVIO E SENIGALLIA Rome After almost four years of relative calm under the stewardship of Prime Minister Bettino Craxi, Italy is once again racked with...
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LABOR MAKES ITS OWN WOES Kinnock on the Defensive BY NORMAN GELB London British Labor Party Leader Neil Kinnock is a different man these days. He doesn't joke as much asheusedto.His face is...
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The Dismal Science BISHOPS MOVE DIAGONALLY BY GEORGE P. BROCKWAY I've been reading a document called "Economic Justice for All." It is the pastoral "letter" (a small book, actually) approved...
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Writers & Writing PASTE-POT PORTRAITS OF AMERICA BY BARRY GEWEN T? suggest a book should never have been published is not to say it is without interest. Two cases in point are Martin Amis'...
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Adventures of a Passionate Rationalist Out of Step: An Unquiet Life in the 20th Century By Sidney Hook Harper & Row. 628 pp. $29.95. Reviewed by John P. Roche It is simply impossible to...
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On How Some Fellows Travel The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey By Salman Rushdie Elizabeth Sifton/Viking. 171pp. $12.95. Reviewed by Anna Husarska Former Central...
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On Stage HUGOS UNLIKELY LIBRETTO BY LEO SAUVAGE It has been called the biggest event in show business history—and if the accent is on business, that's probably true of Les Misérables at...
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On Screen THE ANATOMY OF FEAR BY JAMES GARDNER NOT all films need to be good— at least in the sense of achieving, or even aspiring to achieve, something of esthetic consequence. Inartistic...
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On Dance COMPANIES IN TRANSITION BY LAURA A. JACOBS One of Twyla Tharp's early and difficult works, The Fugue, is a dance for three without music that presents structure as rhythm and vice...
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Dear Editor Royal Unemployment Ray Alan's interesting view into the life of Britain's Prince Charles("The Long March ofthe Prince of Wales," NL, January 12-26) brings to mind Jean Genet's...
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