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- Standing in Tiananmen Square last week watching the surging
- crowds of Chinese intoxicated by the idea of democracy, Beijing
- bureau chief Sandra Burton was reminded of another time and
- another place. "It looked like Manila in 1986, when the
- Filipinos flooded the streets demanding the ouster of Ferdinand
- Marcos," said Burton. "There was the same improvisational air
- as people who had never protested before climbed on their
- bicycles and pedaled into the fray."
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- Burton, who covered the Philippines as Hong Kong bureau
- chief from 1982 to 1986, chronicles Cory Aquino's rise to power
- in Impossible Dream: The Marcoses, The Aquinos, and the
- Unfinished Revolution, just published by Warner Books. In fact,
- so many of Burton's colleagues have written books lately that
- bookstores might consider adding a TIME Authors section. Staff
- writer Guy Garcia's first novel, Skin Deep (Farrar, Straus &
- Giroux), tells the story of a Chicano who left the East Los
- Angeles barrio for Harvard. Contributor Richard Schickel's
- Schickel on Film (Morrow) is a collection of essays on subjects
- as diverse as Woody Allen and John Ford. Associate editor John
- Langone's Superconductivity: The New Alchemy (Contemporary
- Books) describes a new class of superconducting ceramics.
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- Though senior writer Otto Friedrich has written ten other
- books, he is best known as the author of an acclaimed biography
- of a brilliant pianist, Glenn Gould: A Life and Variations
- (Random House). When he is not buried in his own writing,
- Friedrich sometimes dons the mantle of literary agent. Impressed
- by the reporting that Denise Worrell, then TIME's show-business
- correspondent, had done on celebrities from Michael Jackson to
- George Lucas, he offered to spend his lunch hours showing
- Worrell's work to publishers. A flattered if skeptical Worrell
- said, "Great!" then forgot about it. One day she came home to
- find a message: "I think I just sold your book. Call me."
- Worrell's Icons: Intimate Portraits was published last month by
- the Atlantic Monthly Press. That's a happy ending Hollywood
- would approve.
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