JOHN BIRT'S REVOLUTION Trouble at the BBC BY NORMAN GELB London The mood at the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is not a happy one these days. The world-famous and revered institution is...
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OVERCOMING PEREZ' LEGACY Venezuela Takes the Next Step BY STEVE ELLNER Caracas Achain of events here between late May and mid-June has bolstered Venezuela's sagging democracy and heightened...
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MODERN PROBLEMS IN AN ANCIENT LAND Culture vs. Ecology in Nepal BY KAREN SWENSON Katmandu Visiting Nepal with a group of anthropologists 14 years ago, I amused myself each morning, while taking...
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SALVAGING THE ENVIRONMENT Pipeline to a Cleaner Poland BY THOMAS LAND Warsaw Beset by an ongoing energy shortage and [he task of salvaging an environment in ruins, Poland's leaders are turning...
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Writers & Writing THE HOSTESS WITH THE MOSTEST BY PHOEBE PETTINGELL The scene: It is a summer afternoon in rural England, circa 1920. Against the backdrop of a sprawling Tudor manor, swarms of...
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Manhood and Its Discontents In the Company of Men: Freeing the Masculine Heart By Marvin Allen and Jo Robinson Random House. 234 pp. $23.00. No Man's Land: Men's Changing Commitments to Family...
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Scrapbook of a Decade The Fifties By David Halberstam Villard. 800 pp. $27.50. Reviewed by William L. O'Neill Professor of history, Rutgers; author, "American High: The Years of Confidence,...
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Not Just Kid Stuff Game Over: How Nintendo Zapped an American Industry, Captured Your Dollars, and Enslaved Your Children By David Sheff Random House. 445 pp. $25.00. Reviewed by Marc...
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On Television ONE MORE SEASON BY REUVEN FRANK The rite of spring called the New TV Season has not varied for a half-century. After months of ideas being bandied between network program...
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On Stage SOUVENIRS OF THE SIXTIES BY STEFAN KANFER The Shop A round the Corner is one of those projects that keep rising without a trace. The first version, filmed in 1940, offered great...
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Dear Editor Spring Books You should all be bursting with pride after your Spring Book Issue (NL, May 17-31). Palo Alto. Calif. Ella Wolfe Your book number was exceptionally good. I especially...
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