Word: boys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...body dumped by the railroad tracks. Then there's the Garden Grove, Calif., teenager convicted of shooting her stepmother to death. Now she claims she was coaxed into making a false confession by her father, who, she says, committed the crime in cahoots with her stepmother's sister. Whooo boy...
...target of this socially ascending wave of resolution is not only Germanicus (whose exhausted head on the pillow vividly predicts the style of Gericault nearly 200 years later) but also his little son, whose blue cloak matches the general's; the women suffer, but the boy learns, remembers and will act. The more Germanicus unfolds, the more one realizes why Bernini, on his visit to Louis XIV in Paris, declared Poussin to be the only French artist who really mattered: un grande favoleggiatore, "a great storyteller...
...sweat on his upper lip and the shadow of his heavy whiskers. Kennedy had the video sense to address the camera, and the American people, while Nixon addressed himself to Kennedy, as a pre-video debater would. Some had thought the 43-year-old Democrat a depthless rich-boy dreamboat who missed too many votes in the Senate. His only previous executive experience ended with his getting his PT boat sawed in half by a Japanese destroyer. But the first debate established him in the public mind as at least the equal of the two-term Vice President...
...earns some respect when, in his new film Madame Sousatzka, he considers the clash of Anglo and Indian cultures. And Mira Nair, born in India and educated at Harvard, is to be cheered when she brings American movie expertise to her Salaam Bombay! In each film a bright Indian boy comes of age and finds the struggle for independence and maturity as daunting as it was for his country. Both are films of good intentions, but there the resemblance ends. Madame Sousatzka is a cracked cameo, Salaam Bombay! a poignant, imposing fresco...
...reasearch project while she is here atthe IOP, the former Women's Bureau director saysshe will be looking at prominent minorities whohave been able to use the old boy network toadvance their careers and attain positions in theWhite House. She is focusing on National SecurityAdvisor C. Colin Powell, and Gwen King, who, asassistant to the President and director ofintergovernmental affairs, is the ranking Blackwoman in the White House