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DIED. PAULINE KAEL, 82, passionate, pugnacious, widely influential film critic; in Great Barrington, Mass. Kael began writing about movies in the San Francisco Bay Area before serving as the New Yorker's film critic from 1968 until her retirement in 1991 (with a one-year break for a fling at Hollywood producing). In her colloquial, compulsively readable prose, she punctured the pretensions of arty classics from Hiroshima, Mon Amour to 2001: A Space Odyssey; championed such American filmmakers as Steven Spielberg, Brian De Palma and Robert Altman; hailed Last Tango in Paris as a cultural event to rival Stravinsky...
...DIED. PAULINE KAEL, 82, acerbic and amusing film critic whose conversational commentaries were feared by directors, revered by readers and changed the landscape of movie criticism; in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. Kael didn't begin writing reviews until aged 35, but quickly gained a following and was hired by The New Yorker magazine in 1968 where she would reign for more than 20 years. DIED. JIM ROHWER, 52, respected commentator on the Asian economy; in a boating accident, in France. A Hong Kong-based senior writer for Fortune, Rohwer authored the 1995 book Asia Rising, which became the definitive take...
Bush is the President-elect. Let the naysayers take a break from second-guessing and give the new Administration an opportunity to present its agenda. Both Democrats and Republicans could end up being pleased with the accomplishments of a Bush Administration. WALTER W. SCHOENHOLZ Barrington...
...girls are skintight, clingy, revealing shirts and pants. I refuse to buy this clothing for my daughters, and if every mother of a young girl did the same, then maybe the clothing industry would stop marketing such garbage and our daughters could be children a little longer. KAREN SZYBIST Barrington...
...more mind-boggling question: Will we ever get a TIME magazine with complete pagination? LIBOR BROM Barrington...