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All the dancers, who range in age from 19 to 23, were delightful, but the standouts were Margaret Tracey, 19, who joined the company only eight months ago, and her partner, Jeffrey Edwards, 22, a veteran of not quite two years. The world of Fragonard may never have existed, but...
"This is the most fun we've had since Watergate," Ben Bradlee, the Washington Post's top editor then and now, was quoted as saying. In the liberal New Republic, Editor Michael Kinsley wrote, "The only irritating aspect of the otherwise delightful collapse of the Reagan Administration is the widespread...
There are some delightful "pure" works of art in this show, like Alexander Calder's little maquette for a huge motorized sculpture at the New York World's Fair -- a small, sharp orrery with strong cosmological overtones. There are also some rarities by lesser-known artists, notably the huge cubist...
The relationship between Flaubert and Emma Bovary emerges as a passionate substitute for real life. "The one way of tolerating existence," he wrote, "is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy." In turn, Vargas Llosa pulls off a great escape by transforming criticism into a sensual romp...
Most satisfying, the new mystery is often about some specific time or place or profession, whether it is Loren D. Estleman's seedy Detroit or William Marshall's nightmare vision of Hong Kong, Tony Hillerman's half-mystical, half-modern Navajo reservation or Jonathan Gash's crooked fringe of the...