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...scene is a great one, awesomely played by the two actresses. The way terror can suddenly appear in the midst of banality, the basic irony that is the source of most modern horror fiction whether it be crude slasher pic or elegant Hitchcock classic, has never been more eloquently or economically stated. For Ana, at least, there is relief in hysterically speaking at last of what has been, for her, the unspeakable. For Alicia, however, the friend's nightmare only hints at the one that she herself is to face. Under the terror imposed by the junta, which ruled Argentina...
...least civility and restraint, made the meeting a symbolic success. But on the most important issue confronting them, controlling the arsenals of nuclear weapons, there is no assurance that the "fresh start" and "momentum" they spoke about will actually lead anywhere. Not only was there no resolution of the basic issues dividing the two sides, which could hardly have been expected, but there was no hint of progress toward resolution, a more reasonable hope. How American plans to develop space-based strategic defenses can be reconciled with the quest for deep reductions in strategic offenses remains as much...
...Rockefeller Center is a clear descendant of classic cities, coherent and comfortably urban. The proposed Television City is--what? Towers in a park, sui generis, chess pieces (six pawns, a king, a bishop, a rook) that have slid off the board. Although Architect Helmut Jahn has designed only the basic shapes, sizes and placement of his buildings, it seems clear from the plans and model that it would be an unfamiliar species of urban place, awesome and a little spooky. The ballfield-size spaces between the triplet building clusters and the central megatower look awkwardly large, making the radical change...
...film has a moral, it is, "Don't dream it, be it"--a line O'Brien took from the catalog of the racy couturier Frederick's of Hollywood. For most Rockyphiles it is enough to dress like a Frederick's dream: Dracula makeup, dominatrix corset, your basic black garter belt. The hard-core fans, who mime the dialogue onstage, do more than suit up for the dream; they star in it. And once in a full moon the dream can come true. Ron Maxwell, 22, is a Citibank computer operator by day and one of the Eighth Street's performing...
Perhaps, but many experts were bothered by a basic question: Could Shakespeare really have written a poem that is so, well, mediocre? "This is a really bad poem, a piece of doggerel," says David M. Bevington, professor of English at the University of Chicago. "The poem itself does not sound much like Shakespeare to me," says Princeton's Alvin B. Kernan. Frank Kermode of Columbia is even harsher. "This is a very silly affair," he says. "True, Shakespeare wrote some bad poems, but the way this one is bad is not similar in any fashion to the way Shakespeare...