Washington Notebook BY DANIEL SCHORR The U-2 Goes Green A DEFEFINING moment in history is where you find it. Surely one must be the day the plane designed to spy on the Soviet threat was...
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A SPECIAL INTEREST Britain Watches the U.S. Primaries BY NORMAN GELB London Two days after the Presidential primaries in Michigan and Illinois, a friend here telephoned to say, "I hear that the...
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Countdown '92 SHADES OF 1932 BY GUS TYLER In many crucial respects the election of 1992 looks like a rerun of the watershed election of 1932. In other ways this year's Presidential contest seems...
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YEARNING FOR A STRONG HAND Rumblings in the 'Red Army' BY MARK HOPKINS Moscow Shop the Arbat these days and you can virtually outfit yourself in the full regalia of a Soviet Army or Navy...
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FROM GUBIN TO GUBEN Swimming to Cermany BY MICHAEL MORAN GUBIN The man in the lead, Lordan, turned and pressed a finger to his lips, signaling us to be silent. Photographer Christian Faatz and...
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Writers & Writing POE-ET OR POE-SEUR? BY PHOEBE PETTINGELL Edgar Allan Poe is something of a mystery. On the one hand, he has been equally celebrated for his poetry, fiction and criticism. He is...
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How to Make Money Capital Ideas: The Improbable Origins of Modern Wall Street By Peter L. Bernstein Free Press. 340 pp. $24.95. Reviewed by Harvey H. Segal Author, "Corporate Makeover" In...
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Different Souls, Different Smithies Crossover By Dennis A. Williams Summit. 315 pp. $20.00. The Run of the Country By Shane Connaughton St. Martin's. 247 pp. $17.95. Reviewed by Mark...
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On Stage FANTASTIC VOYAGES BY STEFAN KANFER Alomst every Neil Simon work is marked by two conflicts: one between male and female, the other between the playwright's technical skills and his...
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On Dance THE ART OF BUNRAKU BY LAURA JACOBS Anation's approach to its puppet theater is as distinct as its politics or poetry—and therefore lends itself to interesting analysis. How are the...
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Dear Editor Consumer Alert Allow me to add a cautionary footnote to Roger Draper's "A Pharmaceutical Cinderella" (NL, January 13-27). Aspirin is truly one of the best drugs ever compounded....
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