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...years after he smuggled himself into America, are manifestly homages to Ingres-or, more precisely, to Ingres as filtered through Picasso. But that sense of exact and probing contour was not dissipated by De Kooning's progressive moves toward abstraction. Instead, it was reinforced. The line in Abstraction, circa 1945, knows exactly where it is going and what it is doing; for all their improvised quality, his arabesques and scribbles record a certainty about shape that could only have been grounded in prolonged discipline. This is even more discernible in the suite of pastels and charcoals that De Kooning...
...could work such magic, and in The Barking Deer Jonathan Rubin shows considerable talent. Even so, the author wisely does not try to capture the war in its dreadful magnitudes of size and duration. He ambushes a piece of it from a Montagnard village in the central Vietnamese highlands, circa 1964, just before the machinery of destruction began to dwarf its human masters...
Bunting employs the principal tactic of class war, the ambush. His unsuspecting victim is an American named Mark Adams, a member of that amorphous elite loosely known as the Eastern establishment. A graduate of Princeton circa 1960 and a holder of a gentlemanly undistinguished degree from Cambridge, Adams has also served in Viet Nam as an Army officer with a certain detached distaste. Both he and his wife Marjorie, a diplomat's daughter from north-central New Jersey's horsy country, wear their status with the proper casual confidence. For Adams, at least, this confidence is rudely shaken...
...Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1970). Vittorio de Sica's film about a Jewish family in fascist Italy, circa 1938. With Dominique Sanda and Helmut Berger. Ch. 4, 9:30 p.m. Color, 1 1/2 hours...
From the very beginning, the appeal of the fin was irresistible. The very word angling derives from the ancient Greek onkos, or barbed hook. Circa 200 B.C., Cato the Elder (manifestly a non-angler) was astonished by tales of "a city where fish sold for more than an ox." (To the fisherman, the situation is unsurprising; acquiring the fish called for more ingenuity, greater effort and less tenderizer.) History's most prominent fisherman was, of course, St. Peter, who later turned to netting souls. In the years A.D., angling was seen as something more than the mere coaxing...