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Chronicles Magazine March 1996

Perspective

From Bryan to Buchanan
Thomas Fleming - FEBRUARY 01, 1996
It is an unwritten law of American politics that the politicians who devote themselves to the single-minded pursuit of power and wealth must pretend to be men of the people.
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VIEWS

Radical Populism on the Volga
Wayne Allensworth - FEBRUARY 01, 1996
On May 8, 1995, President Boris Yeltsin addressed an auditorium filled with gray-haired war veterans, their chests bedecked with rows of ribbons and medals, and told them of the cost of victory in the Great Patriotic War.
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REVIEWS

The Long Hello
James O. Tate - FEBRUARY 01, 1996
Though Raymond Chandler himself saw to it that he exploited his power in the movies and on radio and television, he knew very well that his appeal rested on a literary achievement.
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VITAL SIGNS

Bond and Betrayal
Wayne Allensworth - FEBRUARY 01, 1996
The early Bond films, like postwar film noir or "adult" Westerns, suited an era that did not require that its heroes be Boy Scouts, but was not yet prepared for the amoral antihero that Clint Eastwood would soon popularize in his squint-and-kill...
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VITAL SIGNS

The Wonderful World of Porn
Egon Richard Tausch - FEBRUARY 01, 1996
You remembered your adolescence and those turgid paperbacks in which the vocabulary was strictly four-letter, the plot rambling and forgotten halfway through the book, and the characters' names changed periodically as though some of the chapters...
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VITAL SIGNS

Left and Right in Eastern Europe
Thomas Molnar - FEBRUARY 01, 1996
Not much can be understood about the new role of the political left and right in Eastern Europe without taking into account two fundamental factors, generally ignored by both critical and enthusiastic observers of the post-1990 years.
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