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...poetry, notices from credit card card companies prepared to honor various reporters with their very own American Express, and buckets of press releases crafted by the public relations industry to resemble news. After the news editor has combed out the few snippets of honest-to-goodness news from the pile, he hands it to us for our perusal...
...turned around, jogged to The Crimson, and called to get my name in the pile of responses which I imagined to be growing at that very instant...
...front pages and nightly broadcasts. Exclusive access is another matter: since taking office, he has given only a handful of interviews to American journalists. The first was to TIME in August 1985. "Do you think we're never going to meet again, so you are going to pile everything into one interview?" he joked after more than an hour of conversation. We did meet again. Last week, on the eve of his summit meeting with George Bush, Gorbachev invited Time Warner editor-in-chief Jason McManus and five TIME staff members to his Kremlin office for a tour d'horizon...
...consequence is that in Ketzin, 20 km (12 miles) from Berlin, a 56- hectare (140-acre) pile of imported rubbish threatens to poison the groundwater. In January, after the city's angry citizens discovered the source of the heap, they held a protest with banners proclaiming EAST GERMANY IS NOT TO BECOME EUROPE'S TOILET. After the demonstration, East Germany's Environment Minister banned toxic-waste imports to Ketzin...
...middle-aged, open-married Manhattan heroine ("Clea Shawn was a sophisticated woman . . . she'd been in love so often that her heart felt like a sponge mop") are certainly warning signs. So is Alther's early summary of the passions that bind two women "Elke felt like a pile of nails being pulled to pieces by a magnet residing inside Clea." But such maladroit introductory passages could be dismissed as the ironic setup for a comic romp. Far more convincing instead to plunge to the heart of the novel for this glimpse of Clea's development: "She burned to take...