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REPORTERS AND EDITORS: TARA H. ARDEN-SMITH,ELIZABETH T. BANGS, ELIE G. KAUNFER, JOE MATHEWS,CHRISTOPHER ORTEGA, SARAH E. SCROGIN, JOHN E.STAFFORD, ETHAN M. TUCKER, ANNA D. WILDE...
...Books: Ethan Canin plumbs man-to-man combat...
...between the sexes does not particularly concern Ethan Canin. While other writers chronicle that battle, as well as the myriad conflicts that ignite female relationships, Canin stalks the less traveled turf -- at home, at work and at play -- where men wage undeclared hostilities against one another. In The Palace Thief (Random House; 205 pages; $21), a superb collection of four novellas, as in his acclaimed earlier fiction (Emperor of the Air, Blue River), Canin also reminds us of a more interior battle: the struggle among men to discover who they really...
...been a great year for Art Deco. The hype for Barbra Streisand's auction of her extensive Deco collection has been almost as impressive as the objects themselves. And now the Coen brothers, Ethan and Joel, have made a movie in which the massive moderne settings by production designer Dennis Gassner and the glowing light cast on them by cinematographer Roger Deakins make you wonder how a decorative style at once so sleek and warm could ever have fallen out of favor...
...fanciful touches, Capra, a master of motion within the frame, never lost touch with reality, which is sadly not the case with the stylish but bloodless Hudsucker Proxy. Most important, he and Sturges, ever the sentimental wise guy, were at heart children of the light. The Coens (Joel directs, Ethan produces and they write together, this time with Sam Raimi) are creatures of darkness. At their best (the great Miller's Crossing or the dizzy Raising Arizona) they are brilliant satirists of the national propensity for violence. But here they have deliberately cut themselves off from their best subject...