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Occassionally, however, the biographer's perceived duty to empathize becomes a burden. She too often minimizes Mapplethrope's sociopathic impulses, which appeared early on in childhood, when, according to the book, he took delight in killing his pets. Morrisroe also gives a bizarre account of the older Mapplethorpe's torture and starvation of his pets monkey, Scrath, whose skull he kept as a souvenir after the animal's death. Too often, these disturbing incidents are attributed to the various social pressures that Mapplethrope faced: Catholicism, his parents, his background. To be sure, much of the artist's behavior was supposed...
...classic literature. You don't expect to find it in modern movies. You certainly wonder how a Taiwan-born director like Lee (The Wedding Banquet, Eat Drink Man Woman) has managed to reach across time and cultures to deliver these delicate goods undamaged. Maybe some of that whoosh of delight one feels at the end of Sense and Sensibility is for him, and his emergence as a world-class director...
GOOD THINGS ALSO COME IN BIG packages. A timely example is the venerable art book, a Christmas delight for the MTVer as well as those who still think a VCR is some sort of honor bestowed by Queen Elizabeth. Bless the old darlings and the authors, photographers and publishers who stubbornly ignore the electronic onslaught to labor with inspiration and care to bring us the treasures of the world's museums, the pleasures of distant lands and the handiwork of dreamers. Here are some of this season's finest...
...very spaces we live in, learn in and draw delight and inspiration from are part of that legacy. Has Har- vard--in its humanities center no less--decided that it is no longer worth the effort to pass on to future generations this part of our culture...
...certainly premature to write his epitaph. He has survived many bouts of ill health in the past, weathering an apparent nervous breakdown, a kidney disorder and, of course, his chronic problem with alcohol. With each rebound, he has seemed to delight in showing off his vigorous constitution, shaming pundits who were on the verge of announcing his demise...