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Thanks to a sleepy incumbent and a seemingly lightweight rival candidate, the Democrats may succeed in recapturing the White House on themes of "management" and "competence," without invoking the dreaded "L" word or the ideas behind it. And after a decade of Republican hypocrisy -- especially after what happened to Walter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Hypocrisy and the L Word | 8/1/1988 | See Source »

During both events, Gorbachev made a determined effort to use the newly won legitimacy of the Soviet reform program as a way of jump-starting similar plans in the East bloc. Though he has signaled many times that Moscow's allies are free to experiment with perestroika programs of their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eastern Europe Fraternal Differences | 7/25/1988 | See Source »

The clunky style of "Errand" is a throwback to the 19th century, but "Errand" is an experiment, a post-modern experiment, on the border between fiction and non-fiction. Capote's In Cold Blood and, more recently, Don DeLillo's Libra are other examples of the post-modern urge to...

Author: By W. CALEB Crain, | Title: Carver's Quiet Brilliance | 7/12/1988 | See Source »

What Latin America knows is that people create one another when they meet. In the music of Latin America you will hear the litany of bloodlines: the African drum, the German accordion, the cry from the minaret. The U.S. stands as the opposing New World experiment. In North America the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Fear of Losing a Culture | 7/11/1988 | See Source »

Willie Horton was supposed to be serving time for murder in Massachusetts in April 1986 when he invaded a home in Oxon Hill, Md., raped a woman and stabbed her companion. Horton had not broken out of prison. He had walked away from it ten months earlier while on a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The One That Got Away | 6/27/1988 | See Source »

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