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...WEED FOR BURNING by Conrad Detrez Translated by Lydia Davis Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 258 pages...
Horse and rider become a single, and singular, Olympic animal. As if he were speaking of a fellow athlete, high-soaring Conrad Homfeld of the U.S., here clearing a jump, said his favorite stallion, Abdullah, was "obviously very talented." And quite a draw to boot. Capacity crowds packed the Fair banks Ranch Country Club, transformed into a picture-book endurance course, and the venerable Santa Anita race track's show jumping and dressage ring. With precise rounds in the individual three-day event, Mark Todd, an Auckland dairy farmer, galloped to New Zealand's first equestrian gold medal...
Much of the film's heavy-handedness comes from the directness with which both director and screenwriter seem to approach the film. They seem impatient to tell the story to the audience, not allowing the characters to speak for themselves. Whereas in Ordinary People Conrad's guilt over is brothers death is gradually drawn out over the course of the film and not being explained until its climax, Arnold's accidental shooting of his older brother occurs within the first five minutes of the Stone Boys. Before we can even get into Arnold's head, the police sirens and funeral...
...father is "a very big man indeed." As for Wells' opponents, Henry James is charged with literary dictatorship and George Bernard Shaw with "Stalinism." And yet the author's praise is not entirely fulsome. Prophetic fiction owes its very existence to Wells. He was, as Joseph Conrad wrote, a "realist of the fantastic." In The World Set Free, he predicted the atom bomb; in The Island of Dr. Moreau, organ transplants; in The War of the Worlds, laser beams. Wells also produced a vast body of nonfiction, capped by The Outline of History, an almost hysterically optimistic attempt...
...Angeles Times, which prides itself on massive projects, won in public service for a 27-part series, Latinos, based on more than 1,000 interviews and reported and edited by Mexican Americans on the staff. Editorial Cartoonist Paul Conrad, 59, an acid-penned liberal, won his third Pulitzer in 20 years for japes at U.S. military activity and the nuclear arms race...