Washington-USA AN OPEN LETTER TO BILL CLINTON By ANDREW J. GLASS Dear Governor Clinton, It's too bad that you aren't old enough to recall the mood hereabouts when Senator John F. Kennedy of...
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AFTER THE ELECTIONS Test Time for Israel's Moderates by ELIAHU SALPETER Yrtzchak Rabin's first test in his second turn as Prime Minister came faster than expected. On the eve of Secretary of State...
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SHORN OF ITS MYTHS Russia on the Road to Reality by MARK HOPKINS It is a damp summer day. Rain beats down on Nevsky Prospect, the city's main street, splashing grime onto boots, trousers and...
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Culture Watching THOUGHTS ABOUT THE 'NEW YORKER' by PHILIP HAMBURGER Writers have memories, not crystal balls. Moreover, it is extremely dangerous to speculate about the future; matters rarely...
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Countdown '92 HOW THE DEMOCRATS ARE DIFFERENT by GUS TYLER In the four days between the opening and closing of the Democratic National Convention, the fortunes of Bill Clinton were turned...
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Writers & Writing THE PASSION OF JEAN GARRIGUE by PHOEBE PETTINGEL Upon hearing Edna St. Vincent Millay read in the 1930s, the young Jean Garrigue rushed out and spent her entire meager...
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Living in the Present The Italics Are Mine By Nina Berberova Knopf. 600 pp. $30.00. Reviewed by Freema Gottlieb Co-author, "Jewish Folk Art"; contributor, New York "Times Book Review," "Times...
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The Folly of Independence Oh Canada! Oh Quebec! Requiem for a Divided Country By Mordecai Richler Knopf. 282 pp. $23.00. Reviewed by Harold M. Waller Associate Dean of Arts, McGill...
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On Television A SURPRISE FROM MTV by REUVEN FRANK Once they were powerful, universally acknowledged. Now they are tired; they creak; they are not "relevant.'' With trudging steps they lumber...
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On Stage ARTISTS AND MODELS by Stefan Kanfer Oscar Wilde was working on his drama of Salome and John the Baptist in 1891 when he came across a Romanian acrobat in Paris. Suddenly he knew how...
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