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EXECUTIVE EDITORS: Edward L. Jamieson, Ronald Kriss...
EXECUTIVE EDITORS: Edward L. Jamieson, Ronald Kriss...
...project was supervised by Executive Editor Ronald Kriss, who has helped excerpt the memoirs of Kissinger, Carter, former Secretary of State Alexander Haig and Historian Theodore White for TIME. "It's always fascinating to look in these windows on history," he says. "What we're trying to do is give our readers fresh insights and illuminations of the news, a dimension that is almost impossible to achieve by even the best weekly journalism...
Reporter-Researcher Brigid O'Hara-Forster checked the manuscript's independently verifiable data. Executive Editor Ronald Kriss, who has had a major role in preparing nearly all the recent book excerpts that have appeared in TIME, including those from the memoirs of Henry Kissinger and Jimmy Carter, supervised the Haig project. Says Kriss: "It is practically unprecedented for a former major member of an Administration to publish a controversial book about his experiences while that Administration is still in power. That adds an additional level of newsworthiness to the contents of the book...
...movies (Yentl, Silkwood, Terms of Endearment), Tinseltown acts as pious as a tot on Santa's knee, straining to prove that it has been a model of decorum all year long, daring to ask for a big shiny Oscar. But with its "entertainment"pictures, Hollywood yearns to play Kriss Kringle, filling every Christmas stocking with a cheap thrill or a giddy giggle. So slapdash are these entertainments that the industry looks to be holding a year-end fire sale, with damaged goods peddled to the holiday crowds. Here and there one can find a pleasant or ambitious film...