AN UNSTABLE POLITICAL SCENE Israel the Morning After BY ELIAHU SALPETER Tel Aviv Negative national and international reactions to the outcome of Israel's November 1 parliamentary...
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Countdown '88 AFTER THE BRAWL WAS OVER BY GUS TYLER IN THE GREAT game of politics, George Bush was not supposed to win this year's Presidential election; but if he did, his party was...
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ANOTHER MENDÈS-FRANCE? Rocarcd's Rocky Road in France BY JANICE VALLS-RUSSELL TOULOUSE Referendums are a tactical gift for any leader seeking to outflank his parliament. Misused by the...
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JOCKEYING FOR POSITION Solidarity Inches Forward BY ERNEST SKALSKI Warsaw What is happening these days in Poland seems chaotic even to the participants in the events. But placing the...
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The Dismal Science REALITY AND WELFARE REFORM BY GEORGE P. BROCKWAY The giveaway of Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan's new Family Security Act—aka welfare reform—is its cost. I don't mean...
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Writers & Writing POETS AS ART CRITICS BY PHOEBE PETTINGELL WALLACE Stevens, who was an art collector as well as a poet, enjoyed quoting the Goncourt brothers' observation that "nothing in...
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Witching the Ordinary People Breathing Lessons By Anne Tyler Knopf. 315 pp. $18.95. Reviewed by Hope Hale Davis Author, "The Dark Way to the Plaza" When the second chapter of...
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Compulsive Reading for Political Junkies Generation of Swine: Gonzo Papers, Volume 2, Tales of Shame and Degradation in the '80s By Hunter S. Thompson Summit. 304 pp. $18.95. Reviewed...
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On Dance THE LAST JOFFREY PROJECT BY LAURA A. JACOBS The eighties have not been kind to classical ballet. George Balanchine, perhaps the greatest classical choreographer in history, died...
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