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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.