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PROFILE of writer and cellist Mark Salzman, 40... Tells about his new short novel, "Lying Awake", which describes the travails of a nun whose tumor is …
Lawrence Weschler
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PROFILE of Polish journalist Jerzy Urban. During Poland's martial law in the eighties, Urban was General Wojciech Jaruzelski's press secretary, …
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Lawrence Weschler’s 1994 Profile of the director Roman Polanski at work on his film “Death and the Maiden,” a film whose themes eerily resonate with Polanski’s own story.
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PROFILE of Breyten Breytenbach, exiled South African poet and painter. Describes his early life, growing up in South Africa, his love of the Afrikaner …
a reporter at large ·
A REPORTER AT LARGE about Jan Kavan, a Czech dissident, who was accused of collaborating with the Czech secret police or StB, and was "lustrated" or purged…
a reporter at large ·
A REPORTER AT LARGE about Poland's economic problems. Writer visits a market at Warsaw's Stadium of the Tenth Anniversary. Describes the wide …
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PROFILE of Iraqi architects Kanan & Mohamed Makiya; son & father. Mohamed thinks he was born in 1916. Since 1974 he has been based in London. His firm is …
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Former rocket scientist & investment banker, now a circus clown.
a reporter at large ·
REPORTER AT LARGE about Uruguay. Their repressive military dictatorship ended in 1985 after 12 years. Victims of human rights abuses wanted to settle …
a reporter at large ·
REPORTER AT LARGE about Uruguay & their repressive military dictatorship which lasted 12 years beginning in 1973. In 1903 Jose Batlle y Ordonez became …
a reporter at large ·
REPORTER AT LARGE about Poland. On May 10th, a 16-day nationwide series of rolling strike actions by Polish workers came to an end as a few hundred Gdansk …
a reporter at large ·
REPORTER AT LARGE about the use of torture against political opponents by Brazilian military governments between 1964 & 1979, which was revealed in the …
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Two-part PROFILE of Nicolas Slonimsky, musical lexicographer, 92... In the first part tells about his family in Russia, and his experiences during the …
a reporter at large ·
REPORTER AT LARGE about the discovery & successful promotion of Harold Shapinsky, a 60-year-old Abstract Expressionist painter of the generation of de …
a reporter at large ·
REPORTER AT LARGE about Poland. After sixteen months, Solidarity's official existence ended with the coup on Dec. 13, 1981, which established martial …
a reporter at large ·
REPORTER AT LARGE about Poland. In the fall of 1982 writer came to witness martial law in Warsaw. Solidarity had been permitted to exist officially for 16 …
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PROFILE of Southern Calif. artist, Robert Irwin. In Oct., 1970 Irwin completely shut down his operations as a conventionally practicing artist. He found he…
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PROFILE of Robert Irwin, a leading Southern Calif. artist. He was born in 1928, in Long Beach, into a lower-middle-class family with no artistic …