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Hostage's trainer, Mike Freeman, tried to convey a jaunty philosophy, but his hands were shaking: "As LeRoy Jolley says, 'You don't play this game in short pants.' " Jolley's chilling line was coined in 1975 on the tragic occasion of the filly Ruffian's match race against Kentucky Derby Winner Foolish Pleasure. Ruffian's right foreleg snapped, and she was destroyed. Jolley trained Foolish Pleasure...
When an artist essays a big subject, he tends to overreach: Longobardi's images, inspired by the catastrophic recent earthquakes in Naples, are too wispy and facile to convey more than a veiled pathos, except for one large painting of a skew-eyed lion interrupted in his mauling of a woman by a fountain toppling behind him. Altogether too much of the exhibition is pulpy with triviality. Ontani, who dresses in historical costume or mythological nudity and has himself photographed (not only as Dante, but as Christopher Columbus, Don Giovanni and even Leda), is a natural clown...
...novels lose much in the transition from print to film. The process involves boiling a 300-plus page novel down to about 120 pages for almost two hours of film: to do this the author must simplify plot lines, remove minor characters and trust in his actors' abilities to convey the emotions written into the novel. The result may be radically different from the original prose work. And yet Dunne shows no signs of abandoning the silver screen or slackening his work at the typewriter. With a critically well-received movie like True Confessions and a needle-sharp novel like...
...columnist in America who holds a Ph.D., George F. Will. Will's columns show up regularly in the Washington Post, and bi-weekly on the back page of Newsweek. His articulate style and his controversial stands have earned him a wide readership and several awards. But 20-inch columns convey only a brief message to the reader. To understand the coherent Will philosophy, weaving his disparate thoughts together, one needs really to read several in succession. For example, The Pursuit of Virtue & Other Tory Notions...
...seems remarkable that such a cohesive collection of poems was released after Wright's death--however, it is worth nothing that the manuscript was virtually complete when he died in 1980. The poems seem to have been written by someone who knew he would die, but they convey an appreciation of life that is at once quiet and fierce, a rare zeal that comes only from knowing life well...