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-- Cable reaches 52.8% of all U.S. TV homes, up from 17.5% ten years ago, according to the A.C. Nielsen Co. Viewers who got their homes wired back in the 1970s were attracted mainly by the promise of better reception and pay- cable movies. Now they can sample a growing smorgasbord...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: The Big Boys' Blues | 10/17/1988 | See Source »

This was a period when Eastern Establishment Republicans were figures of hate and ridicule to "real" Republicans who backed Goldwater, the year Charles Percy and George Romney were lumped with Nelson Rockefeller as traitors to the party. Yet here, in Houston, was a Republican looking more like a Saltonstall than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Republicans | 8/22/1988 | See Source »

Joyce once said, "Imagination is memory," and he drew greatly on his personal experiences for his works--so greatly that his first novel, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, is considered nearly biographical. For many of his female characters, who seem even more real and human than...

Author: By Colin F. Boyle, | Title: A Portrait of the Artist's Wife | 8/12/1988 | See Source »

Is Nora's biography essential for Joycean scholars to understand what was going on inside Joyce's mind when he was writing his masterpiece? Will it inspire in Joyce's admirers a desire to go back and re-read all of his works and give them new meaning? In the...

Author: By Colin F. Boyle, | Title: A Portrait of the Artist's Wife | 8/12/1988 | See Source »

Nora was Joyce's "portable Ireland," and he frequently read into her experiences, songs and tales for his inspiration. Nora's unpunctuated letters to Joyce were the basis of Molly's monologue at the end of his masterpiece. All of his major female characters share her wit, personality and touching...

Author: By Colin F. Boyle, | Title: A Portrait of the Artist's Wife | 8/12/1988 | See Source »

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