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March 5, 1990 Issue - 19 Articles- TRB: Apparatchik City
Michael Kinsley
, pp. 4-5 Nobody here but us non-dissidents
- Correspondence, p. 6
Rich Senators on the defense, Yankees on the offense, etc.
- Tons for Guns
The Editors
, p. 7 The defense budget reveals Secretary Cheney to be living in a time warp. His plan to bu...
- Notebook, p. 8
Nelson Mandela and John Gotti: by any chance related?
- Water Down
Henry Fairlie
, pp. 9-11 Perrier's demise leaves a refreshing aftertaste
- Holding Patterns
Fred Barnes
, pp. 12-13 Senator Bill Bradley agrees with his fellow Democrats: now is the time to sit around an...
- Who Needs NATO?
Morton Kondracke
, p. 14 The President will have to offer more convincing reasons if he wants Congress to keep s...
- Party Fault Lines
James Blitz
, pp. 15-16 The repeal of Article Six was all over the Moscow papers, but cleaning ladies and coal ...
- Great Lenin's Ghost
Martin Peretz
, pp. 17-19 Despite the excitement about the Party conference, economic ruin and the habits of dece...
- Gorbachev's Intellectual Odyssey
Joshua Muravchik
, pp. 20-25 The theory that Gorbachev is scrapping Leninism only as a tactic to save it looks weake...
Books and the Arts
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On Films: The Woman in the Case (3 Reviews) Stanley Kauffmann
, pp. 26-27 Everybody Wins (1990 Film), by Karel Reisz
- Everybody Wins (1990 Film) by Karel Reisz
- Mama, There's a Man in Your Bed (1990 Film) by Coline Serreau
- Stella (1990 Film) by John Erman
- On Theater: Actors Directing Actors
Robert Brustein
, p. 28 The actors in Richard Jordan's Macbeth are classically trained, so why is the productio...
- On Music: Jolly Roger and the Musical Past
Edward Rothstein
, pp. 29-33 The authenticity movement in music is thriving, but the sounds all those original instr...
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What Is To Be Done? (4 Reviews) Richard E. Ericson
, p. 34 Inside Perestroika, by Abel Aganbegyan
- Inside Perestroika by Abel Aganbegyan
- Gorbachev's Struggle for Economic Reform by Anders Aslund
- Perestroika in Perspective by Padma Desai
- The Turning Point by Nikolai Shmelev and Vladimir Popov
- To H.J., the Master
Mary Maxwell
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Pulpit Bully (Review) Robert Alter
, pp. 38-39 The Jews in America, by Arthur Hertzberg
- The Jews in America by Arthur Hertzberg
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The Rhetorical Imagination (Review) Hilary Mantel
, pp. 40-41 The Message to the Planet, by Iris Murdoch
- The Message to the Planet by Iris Murdoch
- Washington Diarist: Crushed Velvet
Jacob Weisberg
, pp. 42-44 Vaclav Havel, Lou Reed, and a bat out of hell
- Cover
Allen Carroll
