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Alicia, who does not inquire too deeply into how her husband Roberto (the excellent Héctor Alterio) happens to be doing so well in business, finds herself compelled to look more carefully into her child's background. Frustration with the utter lack of documentation--obviously it was in the state's interest not to keep records--leads to obsession. And obsession leads to a belated political awakening, including a recognition that she would not have this child were Roberto not so involved with an evil regime. It also brings her, at last, into contact with a woman who is probably...
While Soviet news coverage of the Geneva summit was lively and thorough by past standards, the story was still carefully tailored for domestic audiences. Soviet TV's news team was led by Valentin Zorin, 61, the gray-haired, avuncular dean of Moscow's on-air political analysts. Zorin's background reports came principally from Georgi Arbatov, the Kremlin's top-ranking Americanologist. Like other Soviet journalists, Zorin adopted a tone of cautious optimism once the summit was under way, telling his audience of 150 million on the 9 o'clock nightly newscast Vremya (Time), "If the two leaders manage...
...partners sums ranging from nearly $ 1 million for the most junior to $10 million-plus for the top echelon. This gilded dissolution followed months of infighting that had effectively deposed two chief executives of the firm. The first was a former Nixon Cabinet member with a Greek immigrant background but Wasp manners and connections; the other was a company insider who throughout his life, even at this Jewish-founded firm, believed himself a victim of anti-Semitism...
...countless volumes and films; the most celebrated, The Life of Emile Zola, won an Academy Award for best picture in 1937. But The Affair manages to invest the drama with renewed pity and urgency. French Professor Jean-Denis Bredin is not content with a toneless recapitulation; the dark background is carefully illuminated, and the major characters and walk-ons are given full dimension, including, at times, the homosexual flirtations of spies and Dreyfus' adventures with a series of mistresses...
...watercolors yield nothing to his larger paintings. Homer had great powers of visual analysis; he could hardly look at a scene without breaking it down and resolving it as structure, and some of his paintings of the Adirondack woods, with their complicated shuttle of vertical trunks against a fluid background of deep autumnal shade, are demonstration pieces of sinewy design. He was able to isolate a motif in action, as though the watercolor were a pseudo photograph. This sometimes looks false, but it was exactly the kind of falsity that appealed to popular taste, and Homer's watercolors of leaping...