Washington Notebook By Daniel Schorr Nixon 25 Years Later Thoughts on the August 9 anniversary of Richard M. Nixon's resignation: Maybe I needed 25 years to get over being listed as an...
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IN BRITAIN AND FRANCE Summer Festival Hopping By Janice Valls-Russell AIX-en-Provence Like Stratford-on-Avon in Britain, the French cities of Avignon and Aix-en-Provence are quiet places...
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QUESTIONS ABOUND Prosperity and Crime in Mexico By Addison De Witt Guadalajara Knowledgeable historians have long rejected the notion that moral decay caused the fall of Rome. At its most...
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The Dismal Science LESSONS FROM THE DEPRESSION By George P. Brockway The new Congressional committee created ostensibly to reach a nonpartisan solution to the Social Security "crisis"...
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Writers & Writing CULTURE VULTURES By Roger Draper In the realm of traditional high culture the United States has been more receiver than creator. It is quite otherwise in popular and mass...
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A Surfeit of Cash The Corruption of American Politics: What Went Wrong and Why By Elizabeth Drew Birch Lane. 256pp. $21.95. Reviewed by Andrew J. Glass Senior correspondent and columnist,...
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Adventure or Tragedy Orphans of the Cold War: America and the Tibetan Struggle for Survival By John Kenneth Knaus Public Affairs. 416 pp. $27.50. Reviewed by Karen Swenson Author, "The...
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On Screen KUBRICK'S FINAL ODYSSEY By Raphael Shargel Twice during Eyes Wide Shut, the obsessively brilliant movie Stanley Kubrick completed just before his death, Alice Harford (Nicole...
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On Music FORTY-NINE DEADLY SINS By John Simon This year we are midway between two centenaries: 1998 was Lotte Lenya's; 2000 willbe that of her husband, Kurt Weill. There is something rare...
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On Stage OFF-BROADWAY ORIGINALITY By Stefan Kanfer Historians researching low points in President Ronald Reagan's Administration have a cornucopia to choose from. Forme the nadir came in...
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