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Washington Notebook By Daniel Schorr Television and the Wall The 10th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, on November 9, was cause for a great international celebration— and...
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PRUSSIAN GRANDEUR AND HIGH-TECH GLOSS Berlin Redux By Andrew J. Glass Berlin My paternal grandfather, Jakob Glass, a wealthy investment banker in prewar Poland, loved to travel but...
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BOURNEMOUTH VS. BLACKPOOL Polarizing British Politics By Norman Gelb London The annual autumn conferences of Britain's major political parties are curious affairs. Delegates from local...
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LETTER FROM BUCHAREST Romania's New Darkness By Ruth Ellen Gruber Bucharest On Halloween, a beautiful and unseasonably warm fall day, I was bitten by a dog as I strolled past the...
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Writers & Writing A WORLD OF WIZARDS By Brooke Allen A phenomenon is afoot in the publishing world. As I write, the top three slots on the New York Times best-seller list are not occupied by...
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A Political Soldier Eisenhower By Geoffrey Perret Random. 688 pp. $35.00. Reviewed by Herbert Parmet Author, "Eisenhower and the American Crusades," "George Bush: The Life of a Lone Star...
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Family Gossip Before You Sleep By Linn Ullman Translated by Tiina Nunnally Viking. 273 pp. $23.95. Reviewed by Hope Hale Davis Author, "Great Day Coming: A Memoir of the 1930s" Imagine a...
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On Screen SOCIAL OUTRAGE SEASON By Raphael Shargel After months of summer frivolity, serious moviegoers look eagerly toward fall, when Oscar-hungry studio executives tend to release their...
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On Music RAVEL REKINDLED By John Simon Just as short stories lag in popularity behind novels, one-act operas trail well behind full-length ones. In the standard repertoire only Cav and Pag,...
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On Stage RHINESTONES AND DIAMONDS By Stefan Kanfer The Booth Theater has a long and honorable record. Named for Edwin Booth, the greatest Shakespearean actor of his time, it has been the...
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Vol. 082 Issue 013 (November 1 1999)
Television and the Wall
