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...grandfather?s idea of elegance - shiny, mothball-smelling tuxes and glazed denture smiles - but it was certainly a change. From 1989-1993, George Bush Sr. exuded a casual richness, rather like the goofy blue-blood airs of the father of the Jon Lovitz character in the animated series ?The Critic...
Forrester’s abject uncomplexity is less Connery’s fault than it is that of the film’s poor script, the first sold by radio film critic Mike Rich. Yet Connery does much on his own to make the role irritatingly undistinguished. Forrester’s path of emotional evolution in the film seems forced, each of its extremes a protest against the brusque and wry tendencies that Connery has honed for so long. Thus, when Forrester rails against his life’s misfortunes, his attitude seems unreal, an instrument of the plot. When...
DIED. SIR MALCOLM BRADBURY, 68, British biographer, novelist, critic, teacher and champion of young writers; after a long illness; in Norwich, England. In 1970, with Angus Wilson, Bradbury founded England's first creative-writing program at the University of East Anglia--to the consternation of British academics, who insisted writing could not be taught. Graduates of the program included future Booker Prize winners Ian McEwan and Kazuo Ishiguro...
Marcus shows how the image of twenty-one-year-old musical Antichrist shows up again and again in discussions of the chief executive. He knows how plain the comparison is, and like any competent critic he stretches the conceit bravely, well past the facts' tolerance. Clinton's politics go almost unmentioned, for example, the better to focus on the president as if he were nothing more than an incarnation of a cultural icon. The Elvis perspective is, however, a stunningly illuminating way to see Clinton and understand why we have hated and loved...
ROBERT ROSENBLUM, curator and critic, lectures on "Inside/Out: Picasso vs. Bouguereau in 1900" at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 7, in the Carpenter Center auditorium. I'll be there cheerleading...