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It was no crisis of Swaggart's conscience that brought peril to this empire. The evangelist confronted his sin only because Assemblies' leaders had been provided with sordid information. Their chief evidence was incriminating photos taken last fall outside New Orleans at a down-at-the-heels motel called the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Now It's Jimmy's Turn | 3/7/1988 | See Source »

James McClure's stories about two policemen in his native South Africa, one white and one black, have been noteworthy in equal measure for their poignant evocation of that land, their perception of partnership and their acute sense of sexual obsession. The last is at the core of a novel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Many Guises of Mysteries | 2/1/1988 | See Source »

Perhaps the most important economic issue in the campaign is not what the candidates propose but what the voters will feel when they go to the polls. For all the obsession with political strategy, presidential campaigns are often won and lost by the numbers: unemployment, inflation and interest rates. Last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yes, There Are Issues | 2/1/1988 | See Source »

No, this is not an outtake from one of Calvin Klein's erotic "Obsession" commercials or a Duran Duran video. This luscious footage comes direct from Bernardo Bertolucci's latest film, The Last Emperor.

Author: By Esther H. Won, | Title: Man of La Manchu | 1/8/1988 | See Source »

It was a Naderite concern for protecting consumers from poor values that first inspired Parker to write about wines. The son of a Baltimore-based oil- company executive, he grew up in a family of moderate drinkers who rarely touched wine. In 1967 Parker briefly dropped out of the University...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food: The Man with a Paragon Palate | 12/14/1987 | See Source »

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