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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Degrees of Separation Broadway playwright John Guare muses on the saddest fact of urban life -- how close people are physically while they remain economically and psychologically so far apart. He takes the true story of a young man who entered the homes of the privileged by purporting to be Sidney Poitier's son and brings into collision the normally separated lives of some modern Manhattanites, each yearning to know about some distant and romantic way of life that is actually just an acquaintanceship or two away...
Criminal Justice (HBO). Forest Whitaker, portraying a man accused (justly or unjustly? We never know) of slashing a hooker, struggles through the grinding, $ insensitive and frequently unfair legal process. TV's docket is jammed with courtroom dramas, but few have been as unsparing, or as moving...
...Kuwaiti supermarket manager shot to death by Iraq's occupation forces? Or was he beheaded? Or hanged? Three supposed eyewitnesses described the murder differently to TIME, although all agree on the result: the man is definitely dead. Whatever actually happened, the fate of that particular Kuwaiti confirms a well-known reality: truth is often war's first casualty...
Church got his start in journalism as a copyboy for the New York Times in 1953 and served for 14 years at the Wall Street Journal before coming to TIME in 1969. Since then he has written four Man of the Year cover stories and 91 other covers on subjects ranging from Henry Ford to gun control and from the future of capitalism to Pete Rose's gambling problems. In September, George moved to the World section, where he writes on such subjects as the gulf crisis and this week's sudden turn of events on the Soviet political scene...
...resigning." As cries of outrage and surprise sounded through the hall, Shevardnadze waved his hands and added, "Don't react, and don't criticize me. Let this be my personal contribution, my protest against the advance of dictatorship. I believe that to resign is my duty as a man, as a citizen, as a communist. I cannot reconcile myself to what is happening in our country and the trials awaiting our people...