Washington Notebook By Daniel Schorr Waiting for the Inevitable Barring an unanticipated bombshell, neither the impressive performance by quarterback defense counsel Charles F. C. Ruff and...
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CREDIBILITY TEST FOR BLAIR Labor Stumbles in Britain By Norman Gelb London Things could not have been looking better for Prime Minister Tony Blair as last year drew toward a close. He...
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Euro vista By Ray Alan Arabs, Jews and Paris Journalism isn't always as surrealistic as Hollywood pretends, but it tries hard. The first editor who paid me a retainer said he did so...
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ELECTION FALLOUT Quebec Straddles the Fence By Harold M. Waller Montreal Quebecers handed the secessionist Parti Québécois (PQ) another election victory last November 30, its fourth...
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The Dismal Science INTEREST RATES I'VE KNOWN By George P. Brockway Friends have been congratulating me on bringing the Federal Reserve Board around to my way of thinking about the interest...
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Writers & Writing POETRY READ IN CANOES By Phoebe Pettingell This century has witnessed the erosion of a general American reading audience for poetry. It did not start out that way....
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Who Will Save Haiti Now? The Immaculate Invasion By Bob Shacochis Viking. 404 pp. $27.95. Reviewed by Carole Cleaver Coauthor. "Spirits of the Night: The Vaudun Gods of Haiti" The title...
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The Perils of Concealment Secrecy: The American Experience By Daniel Patrick Moynihan Yale. 265 pp. $22.50. Reviewed by Christine M. Marwick Author, "Your Right to Government...
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On Screen TRIUMPHS OF INDEPENDENCE By Raphael Shargel Miracles can happen, even in today's Hollywood. After 20 years of silence, Terrence Malick, the extraordinary writer-director of...
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On Television CURTAINS FOR THE TRIOPOLY By Reuven Frank After more than two decades of unbridled soothsaying, gloomy foreboding and wild surmise, the shape of what television will soon be...
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On Stage MURDER IN THE PAST TENSE By Stefan Kanfer In the small hours of April 27, 1913, the body of Mary Phagan, a 13-year-old laborer, was found in the basement of the National Pencil...
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