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...constitutional arguments, lawyers will have to fight each case on the facts of the crime and technicalities of conviction. A network of local defense lawyers, including the Southern Poverty Law Center, which is trying to save Evans, has sprung up to help stave off executions, but L.D.F. Lawyer Joel Berger predicts "within a year there will not be enough doctors in the emergency room...
...movement, surrealism, which specialized in attention-getting stunts, political embroilments, sexual scandals and fervid half-religious crises, Magritte-next to Max Ernst and Salvador Dali, the best surrealist painter -seemed to be all phlegm and stolidity. He lived in respectable Brussels; he stayed married to the same woman, Georgette Berger, for the rest of his life; by the standards of the Paris art world in the '30s, he might as well have been a grocer. Yet Magritte possessed one of the most remarkable imaginations of his century...
Suzanne D. Berger, professor of Political Science and research associate for the CES, said yesterday, "the Center was taking advantage of the fact that de Carvalho was going to be present in the United States...
...Berger's borrowings from Le Morte d'Arthur are eccentric. At times, he hovers close to the celebrated tale of King Arthur and the knights of the Round Table, chronicling their legendary exploits, the magical interventions of Merlin and the quest for the Holy Grail. But his treatment of the romances between Tristram and Isold, Launcelot and Guinevere reads like a medieval version of Couples. Querulous and selfabsorbed, the lovers are made to suffer the mutual incomprehension of male chauvinists and radical feminists. "Being a woman," the author says of Guinevere, "she could not understand honor and justice...
Still, the tales of Camelot are dramatic no matter who tells them. The somber denouement, in which the mortally wounded Arthur restores his invincible sword to the mysterious Lady of the Lake, possesses a grandeur undiminished by familiarity. Aware of the story's inherent drama, Berger eventually abandons farce in favor of a simple, unadorned narrative. "All men of that time lived and died by legend," he notes with uncharacteristic fervor, and his homage to those legends is a relief after the showy wit that dominates so many chapters. - James Atlas