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NOMINATION PROCRASTINATION Despite Foreign Relations Committee chairman Jesse Helms' staunch disapproval, Carol Moseley-Braun has been confirmed for an ambassadorship, The bullish 78-year-old seems to have a problem with almost every nominee...
...face--once the color of a sidewalk, with a nasty eggplant underglow--began to turn almost rosy. It seems the body merely needed more time to follow instructions. Or perhaps new vessels had formed in the first month but were too minuscule to be detected by the angiogram. In midsummer, after six months, I returned to New York Presbyterian for more tests. They showed that formerly "hibernating" tissue on the front wall of the heart (not dead, but inactive) had reawakened. The ejection fraction (percentage of blood ejected with each heartbeat) had risen from 29 to 40 (normal is anywhere...
...with the weird ferocity of an alien creature: a wild angel or a madwoman. This novice actress's task--finding the shading of realism in what could be a cartoon of misery--is made all the more harrowing by the film's intense, handheld scrutiny of her face in almost every shot. The purity of Dequenne's performance inspires awe. To a grubby life she brings dignity, clarity, passion, glory...
...Schreiber, right, with Roy Scheider), describing his concept for Citizen Kane (studio production No. RKO 281): "A titanic figure of limitless ambition...controlling the deceptions of everyone beneath him." Welles means William Randolph Hearst, the ruthless magnate he would nail in the movie that, owing to Hearst's power, almost went unreleased. The irony: like Hearst, the auteur was driven to selfish cruelty for his (artistic) ends. Despite Schreiber's intensity and charm, this film never plumbs its subject's soul as Welles' did, but it's an often absorbing study of free expression and its human cost...
Then there's the mixed message that Jackson is sending. He contends that although the officials who kicked those black kids out of school are overwhelmingly white, the issue is "not race but fairness." In almost the very next breath, he likens Decatur to Selma, Ala. If race is not the issue in Decatur, why dredge up memories of a historic civil rights struggle where the only issue was race...