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Rock is bluntly told: "You've got what every middle-aged man in America would like to have-freedom, real freedom." The freedom of his new life might well make a man wonder whether he has recaptured his youth or simply been shanghaied back to the silly season. Taking...
But the debate and the events preceding it are shot through with gags, word play and pure slapstick. The funniest sequences are those employing the choruses, one made up of Frogs and the other of a band of religious initiates. Here Munger is most skillful, as he breaks up great...
Long before the birth of Christ, Dec. 25 was celebrated in pagan societies as the day on which the sun began its yearly rebirth (astronomically they were only three days off). Peasants in northern Europe decorated their homes with evergreens as a tribute to nature's victory over the...
The Last Ism. Soviet critics, too, were soon after Chagall's hide, dubbing his misbegotten revolution in art a "mystic and formalistic bacchanal." But the purge came from the quarter he least expected. He had hired two painters, Malevich and Lissitzky, members of the suprematist school of painting, to...
What happened in that cosmic bacchanal to Sandra Lee and her colleagues at the cosmetic company is the sum and substance of this novel by William Sansom, a versatile British writer of travel books (The Icicle and the Sun), novels (The Loving Eye) short stories and TV plays.