Washington Notebook BY DANIEL SCHORR Clintons Long Hot Summer I HAVE HAD occasion before to bewail magazine lead time, but never more than this mid-July when Haiti, Rwanda, North Korea, health,...
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A REPORTER'S NOTEBOOK Fueling Hatred in Iran BY ANDREW J. GLASS TEHERAN Few Americans come to this bustling, traffic-choked capital of 11 million people, where gas sells for 12 cents a gallon....
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CHALLENGING THE SOCIALISTS Spain in a Sea of SCandals BY JANICE VALLS-RUSSELL MADRID FOR SPAIN'S Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez, this year's Bastille Day celebration provided a welcome break. As...
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AS QUEBEC GOES TO THE POLLS Canada on the Brink -Again BY HAROLD M. WALLER MONTREAL CANADA as we know it once more faces a threat to its existence. Secessionist forces in French-speaking Quebec...
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The Dismal Science PLAYING THE CHINA CARD BY GEORGE P. BROCKWAY WELL, we decided to play the China card again. A more limp, greasy, shapeless piece of cardboard could scarcely be imagined. We...
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Writers & Writing A MARRIAGE OF CONVENIENCE BY ROGER DRAPER MOST INTERNATIONAL trade and investments is conducted among the biggest players: the United States, Japan and the European...
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Urban Magnetism Berlin Rising: Biography of a City By Anthony Read and David Fisher Norton. 341 pp. S35.00. Reviewed by Paul Oppenheimer Professor of comparative medieval literature and...
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Up from the Street Ella Fitzgerald By Stuart Nicholson Scribners. 334 pp. $23.00. Reviewed by Bruce Cook Author, "Listen to the Blues," "The Town that Country Built" ELLA FITZGERALD is called...
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On Screen TERROR IN THE JUNGLE BY DAVID BROMWICH "THIS MOVIE makes me want to go out and..." With most films, the sentence is easy to complete. Speed, a lightweight thriller of urban terrorism...
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On Television AN EVENING OF PERFECT TV BY REUVEN FRANK MENCKEN HAS been dead since 1956, Gogol since 1852, Swift since 1745, so there was no one around to properly portray what happened on...
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On Stage CULT FIGURES BY STEFAN KANFER STEPHEN SONDHEIM'S resume provides a concise history of modern Broadway. Since his 1957 debut with West Side Story, he has written the music and/or lyrics...
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