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Terrs. Short for terrorists, the term whites use when referring to Patriotic Front guerrillas. Also: gooks, floppies, oxygen wasters. Blacks have a favorite term of affection for the guerrillas: the boys in the bush.
The happy news about Love on the Run, Frangois Truffaut's fifth autobiographical Antoine Doinel movie, is that Antoine still refuses to grow up. Though the director's alter ego has come far since he first appeared 20 years ago in The 400 Blows, he remains a hopelessly...
And perhaps something more general and therapeutic as well. Masters and Johnson's physiological approach in all their work has drawn much fire from those who rightly point out that there is more to human affection than rates of orgasm. But that same narrow focus on biology has given to...
There are two exceptions. Lynne Sharon Schwartz's Rough Strife is a shrewd and sensitively contoured exploration of young marriage and pregnancy. It appears in both the O. Henry and Best collections. Julie Hecht's I Want You, I Need You, I Love You is a stylishly intelligent...
The major primitives of modern art, Henri Rousseau (1844-1910) and Alfred Wallis (1855-1942), never experienced such affection and fame in their own lifetimes-which, admittedly, were shorter than that of Anna Mary Robertson Moses, who died in Eagle Bridge, N.Y., in 1961 at the age of 101. By...