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Congo, of course, was the 19th-century invention of the venal King Leopold of Belgium, whose epic abuses of human rights in a colony he claimed as his personal property inspired history's first international human rights campaign, as well as Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness." It's still...
I think the problem goes back to New Year's Eve, when I was under the Eiffel Tower, drinking cheap champagne and watching the revelers throw firecrackers at one another. (An odd people, the French.) Paris was all around me in the darkness, with its bleached-out white buildings, dark...
Or perhaps my great-grandsire Rudolph has more of a literary bent. If so, he might take a jaunt across the Channel to London, where a Polish emigre named Joseph Conrad has just published, in successive years, Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim. Conrad is coming in at the end...
And there is Parker's pal Dizzy Gillespie, who said Bird was "the other half of my heartbeat," a formidable spirit and great artist who tried, and failed, to save Parker from the demons that drove and devoured him. Clifford Brown, dead in a car wreck, whose only vice was...
It is a vast and complex saga. Burns may be the only documentary filmmaker at work today who would be entrusted with the time and resources to reckon with it, but he is also one of the least likely to have brought it off. Whatever the considerable merits of his...