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Last Thursday, when Ethics Committee chairman Mitch McConnell of Kentucky released his panel's 10-volume, 40-lb., 10,145-page record, there were ample depositions, affidavits and a 174-page bill of particulars to document those charges. There were also diary excerpts that revealed a vain, lecherous, insecure man...
Sabbath is saved from slapstick by his desire to find relief and wisdom in his past. He comes closest in a conversation with a 100-year-old man who once delivered vegetables in Mickey's old neighborhood. Getting the spirit of the aged on paper has become something of a...
DIED. SELMA BURKE, 94, artist; in New Hope, Pennsylvania. Burke rose to prominence in the creative caldron of New York City's "Harlem Renaissance." You may be carrying her best-known work at this very moment--the profile of Franklin Roosevelt that appears on the dime, which is based on...
None of these societies is Nirvana. Indeed, the anthropological record provides little support for Jean-Jacques Rousseau's notion of the "noble savage" and rather more for Thomas Hobbes' assertion that life for our distant ancestors was "nasty, brutish, and short." The anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon has written of his first...
The director, Lasse Hallstrom (My Life as a Dog), is an unobtrusive craftsman who lets his actors breathe in an easy, unforced way, as if they were engaged not in a movie but in real lives. Roberts' willowy vulnerability and watchful intelligence have never been shown to better advantage. And...