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Wishful thinking has been an immense factor in Rembrandt attribution. More than 1,000 paintings have been ascribed to Rembrandt, and they cannot all be by him. The reductionists' ax of the Rembrandt Research Project has fallen on paintings that no one with half an eye, after seeing this show...
THE BOTTOM LINE: Good idea, middling execution, in this '90s update of An American Family.
Great idea, middling execution. The group is composed entirely of aspiring artistes: a writer, a rap singer, a dancer, a model and so forth (not a 9-to-5 drudge in the house). The half-hour episodes are assembled with quick-cutting flash by producers Mary Ellis Bunim and Jon...
-- Roger Keith Coleman, death row inmate, on the courts' refusal to hear evidence that would clear him of a 1982 murder conviction. Coleman is scheduled for execution this week.
Stripped to their essentials, the arguments for capital punishment remain what they have always been: deterrence and retribution. The first of these arguments is not hard to dispose of. Despite innumerable studies, no connection between murder rates and capital punishment has ever been shown. Of course, it stands to reason...