THE THIRTEENTH PARTY CONGRESS Wilting for October in China BY MARK HOPKINS Beijing The latest actions and utterances of China's leaders can only add to the deep current uncertainty...
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FIASCO ON FLEET STREET Donkey Business and Asinine Journ&lisin By Janice Valls-Russell Madrid Britain's mass-circulation dailies were once categorized by Time magazine as among the worst...
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Euro vista BY RAY ALAN Niceness (Seasonally Adjusted) Is AU Four or five times a century, the earth shakes, the heavens flash, and someone raises mid snow and ice a banner with a strange...
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NOW PLAYING IN MOSCOW Gorbashow and the Flicks By Peter Kenez In the middle of March I attended a conference in Moscow jointly organized by an international society of film historians...
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States of the Union THE HEALTH GIFT REPOSSESSED BY RICHARD J. MARGOLIS "...a cruel hoax and a delusion... " The American Medical Association's description of Medicare shortly before THE...
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Writers & Writing CONSTANTINE'S PAGAN TRIUMPH BY PHOEBE PETTINGELL Christtantty's rapid triumph over paganism has remained one of history's major puzzles. Scarcely any independent...
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Contemplating a Caudillo Perón and the Enigmas of Argentina By Robert Crassweller Norton. 432 pp. $22.95. Reviewed by Arthur M. Shapiro Professor of zoology, University of California,...
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Nightmare in Luanda Another Day of Life By Ryszard Kapuscinski Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. 160pp. $14.95. Reviewed by Robin Wright Senior associate, Carnegie Endowment for...
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More than a Thriller A Song in the Morning By Gerald Seymour Norton. 364 pp. $16.95. Reviewed by Robert Lekachman My durable distinction between thrillers and novels is simple: A...
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On Stage WORLDS APART BY LEO SAUVAGE Of the few legitimate plays that have opened on Broadway this season, August Wilson's Pulitzer Prizewinning Fences at the 46 th Street Theater is far...
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On Screen LOOKING FOR LAUGHS BY JAMES GARDNER T? invoke the Modernist model, a film comedy is a machine designed to amuse us: If itcandothis it has justified its right to exist. Occasionally...
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