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FROM THE PUBLISHER, Page 27
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."
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.
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.