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AFTER MOVING IN MANY WORLDS An Israeli Prodigy Stumbles By David Green Jerusalem The winter here was glorious: sunny blue skies and mild temperatures during the day, cool evenings that...
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REFLECTING REALITY French Family Variations By Janice Valls-Russell Paris "We HATE FAMILIES," was a popular slogan of the May 1968 student uprising in Paris. Thirty years on,...
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A LETTER FROM ROME Benigni's Corrective vision By Ruth Ellen Gruber Rome Amplifying his original brief and devastating review of Roberto Benigni's Oscar-winning Life is Beautiful, New...
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Perspectives NATURAL RIGHTS, EQUALITY AND ALL THAT By Marvin E. Frankel A little more than 200 years ago, Jeremy Bentham turned his steely gaze on the French Revolutionary Declaration of the...
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Writers & Writing HOLLANDER'S POETIC PLAYFULNESS By Phoebe Pettingell In the last century many poets still played a game that probably dated from the Renaissance. Participants were given a...
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The Journalist and the Bore The Crime of Sheila McGough By Janet Malcolm Knopf. 176 pp. $22.00. Reviewed by Richard Lamb As a writer, Janet Malcolm is chiefly interested in betrayal, and...
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A Magic Kingdom England, England By Julian Barnes Knopf. 288 pp. $23.00. Reviewed by George Michelson Foy Author, "Contraband"; contributor, New York "Times Book Review" In a world where...
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On Music THE PULL OF POULENC By John Simon How relative things are! The composer Ned Rorem, who knew Francis Poulenc (1899-1963) well, told me not long ago that when he now...
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On Stage TIME IN REVERSE By Stefan Kanfer Last month all eyes focused on the 1940s, as attention was paid to the blockbuster revival of Death of a Salesman. But in the time machine that is...
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Vol. 082 Issue 004 (April 5 1999)
Assessing the War in KOSOVO
