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MOVIES . . . VOLCANO: "We're pretty sure that Nostradamus predicted a pre-millennial Hollywood plague of natural-disaster movies," says TIME's Richard Corliss. Last year, 'Twister;' this fall, 'The Flood.' In February, 'Dante?s Peak' sent small-town folk scurrying from their local Vesuvius; now Mick Jackson?s 'Volcano' has...
Which meant that the 20th century blew it apart. Some indication of the shift can be had by studying the learning curve of Billy Graham. In his 1950 Boston revival, a young Graham was ebulliently specific about the world to come. Heaven, he said, was a place "as real as...
From there it was a short trip to the Lincoln Bedroom. The funny thing, of course, is that Lincoln never slept there. That room served as his study. And because of a renovation ordered by Harry Truman that demolished the interior of the White House, even the walls are 20th...
With such knowledge, and haunted by the memory of the sister he lost, how will Jakob Beer develop into a distinguished poet and, late in his life, a husband besottedly in love with his young wife? These are the questions that Fugitive Pieces addresses through Jakob's own words: "I...
As The Creation of Dr. B. makes clear, Pollak's opinion of Bettelheim has not much improved. Still, the author does provide plausible rationales for his subject's often bizarre behavior. Born into a middle-class Jewish family in Vienna, Bettelheim was a frail, nearsighted child who was acutely conscious...