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...great visceral power-if not, necessarily, the magical efficacy he sought. Even in travesty, he knew the tragic; and though these late paintings are not the best of Picasso (let alone Schiffs "apotheosis"), they are to be valued as fragments of the kind of talent that today seems as distant as the moon itself. -By Robert Hughes
...seem legacies of a colonial past that won't go away. "Winter in the blood" is the way James Welch, the Montana Blackfeet novelist, describes the consequences--a freezing up of the Indian psyche in the face of daily deprivations of the spirit. "I was," he writes, "as distant from myself as the hawk from the moon...
...tortuous love affair between the narrator, Kate Ennis, and a married man named Jake. "Orcas Island," the first of the book's three parts, consists almost entirely of inconsequential vignettes, save for the occasional recollection of some uncomfortable scene with Jake, all culled from Kate's recent and distant past. An air of anticipation runs throughout these sometimes humorous, sometimes ironic sketches which appear to introduce Kate's bright but as of yet unfocused mind. These narrative throat clearings are expected to subside and the story of Kate and Jake, or at least Kate, to follow...
...first candidate to run out of money. He finished fourth in New Hampshire, with 5.3% of the vote; if he falls below 10% again in Vermont's nonbinding "beauty contest" primary on Tuesday, his federal matching funds by law would be cut off 30 days later. That date is distant enough to permit Jackson to continue campaigning full-tilt through the important March primaries and caucuses in Southern states where blacks constitute a large proportion of the Democratic turnout. He might win enough delegates to hurt Mondale, Glenn, or both, and possibly even bag the 20% of the vote...
...Trek's ultrarational Mr. Spock from the future. "I never reveal myself or who I am," he said in 1972. Hart once suggested his relationship with Lee was "a reform marriage": they have separated twice, and reconciled most recently in the spring of 1982. In public they seem distant, rarely glancing at each other or touching. Hart is an avid reader. Not long ago, a reporter suggested he read Ironweed, William Kennedy's prizewinning novel; Hart did. He has been plowing through a biography of Lyndon Johnson and a dissection of Henry Kissinger. Since 1980 Hart and Maine...