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Paul Butterfield's sudden death last week marked a tragic end to a great blues career. While the Buddha was being video-taped, Danko and Butterfield were making hard-hitting, down-home music that was a little bit of honest sound on the new yuppie blues scene...

Author: By Tom Reiss, | Title: Reviving the Buddha | 5/15/1987 | See Source »

Maybe Aias means to be truly tragic, or maybe it means only to shock, but ultimately its more disgusting and exaggerated elements only cause laughter...

Author: By Gary L. Susman, | Title: Aias | 5/6/1987 | See Source »

...concern about the nation's economic plight and strong and healthy public and private assessments of Mubarak's administration. Although one private opinion poll shows that more than 80% of the people approve the peace treaty with Israel, many Egyptians feel that without the restraints of this treaty the tragic Israeli invasions of Lebanon would have been much more unlikely. Despite this concern, there is almost unanimous commitment to the idea of an international peace conference to be sponsored by the United Nations and attended by the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council and by all parties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: Time for Negotiations | 4/20/1987 | See Source »

...other. She is the daughter of woman who did not love her husband. To make things more complicated, Leonardo is a member of the Felix family, which has murdered the Groom's father and brother. Heredity, the agent of fate, determines from the very first scene the story's tragic outcome...

Author: By Gary L. Susmam, | Title: Blood Wedding | 4/11/1987 | See Source »

...began life in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, discovered aspects of the "Socialist dream" in adolescence and taught philosophy at New York University for more than four decades. There, as in such books as The Hero in History, The Paradoxes of Freedom and Pragmatism and the Tragic Sense of Life, Hook established a well-founded reputation as a secular humanist. He questioned received ideas and challenged those who substituted passion for logic. The professor played no favorites, and few were happy with his investigations. To '30s conservatives, he seemed a Marxist apologist; to '60s New Leftists, he was a cold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Party Of One OUT OF STEP: AN UNQUIET LIFE IN THE 20TH CENTURY | 3/30/1987 | See Source »

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