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Frank is also suffering from an American obsession with sexual controversy. House Member Joseph P. McDade (R-Pa.), a powerful Republican on the Appropriations Committee, is now under fire for allegedly taking illegal contributions from a corrupt defense firm, and then channeling to the firm millions in taxpayer dollars.

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: Evaluating Barney Frank-ly | 9/21/1989 | See Source »

To her critics, Morgan is a paranoid liar who has invented the rape charges out of malice against Foretich; her defiance of Dixon's order, they argue, is a sign of obsession, not maternal devotion. To ethicists and legal scholars, the case raises some troubling questions: Should there be time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ethics: A Hard Case of Contempt | 9/18/1989 | See Source »

Goodman portrays in "Wish List" the passionate and literary obsession of a female Israeli novelist for a beautifully built worker who can only respond to her allusions to D.H. Lawrence novels with a request for some eggs.

Author: By Lisa A. Taggart, | Title: The Web of Character and Culture | 8/18/1989 | See Source »

There is something brave and original about piling up most of our worst parental nightmares in one movie and then daring to make a midsummer comedy out of them. It really shouldn't work, but it does. The movie does not linger too long over any moment or mood, and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Typical, Terrible Family | 8/7/1989 | See Source »

BEHAVIOR: A fatal obsession with the stars

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents PageVol. 134 No. 5 JULY 31, 1989 | 7/31/1989 | See Source »

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