Washington Notebook BY DANIEL SCHORR The Iran-Contra Hearings Halfway In 1950, the dawn of Congressional trial by television, gangster Frank Costello walked out of a Senate hearing...
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ECONOMIC MALAISE Ireland's Right-Wing Rut BY KURT JACOBSEN Dublin The Irish Republic's predominantly Right-wing yet fickle voters last February gave Garret Fitzgerald's four-year-old...
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CULTURE AND HIGH TECH The Next Time You See Paris By Janice Valls-Russell Paris Good Americans may, as Oscar Wilde said, go to Paris when they die, but wise ones don't wait that long. Most...
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The Dismal Science VALE, VOLCKER BY GEORGE ? BROCKWAY A couple of years ago, Mayor Edward I. Koch was asked who was responsible for pulling New York City back from the brink of bankruptcy....
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States of the Union HOW MEDICARE PUTS THE ELDERLY ON HOLD BY RICHARD J. MARGOUS Neoconservattves and neoliberals keep urging the rest of us to privatize Medicare, chiefly on grounds that...
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Writers & Writing THE KENNEDYS AS METAPHOR BY BARRY GEWEN Doris Kearns Goodwin's The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys: An A merican Saga (Simon and Schuster, 932 pp., $22.95) is a book out of...
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In the Belly of the Monster The Italians and the Holocaust By Susan Zuccotti Basic Books. 334 pp. $19.95. Memoirs of a Fortunate Jew: An Italian Story By Dan Vittorio Segre Adler &...
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True to Character Bolt By Dick Francis Putnam. 318 pp. $17.95. Nursery Crimes By B.M. Gill Scribner's. 194 pp. $15.95. Reviewed by Hope Hale Davis Author, "The Dark Way to the...
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On Stage COOL LUST BY LEO SAUVAGE LONDON, this season's source of such Broadway megahits as the execrable Starlight Express and the flawed yet not unappealing Les Misérables, has finally...
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On Dance BLOSSOM TIME IN NEW YORK BY LAURA A. JACOBS Dance in New York explodes in the spring. With so much going on— American Ballet Theatre (ABT) at the Met, New York City Ballet (NYCB)...
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