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Embalmed Stage Sets. For the newer California artists the words object, assemblage and crazy seem quite fitting. According to Los Angeles County Museum Curator of Modern Art Maurice Tuchman, their emphasis on detail, however offbeat, is "a profound reaction against California as a land of lotus eaters, neon lighting and...
Le Carre is good at credibility and suspense; he is bad at effect and characterization. More than half the book follows the genesis and execution of the East German mission, and the technical details never seem false or obtrusive. One believes that such preparation would be sufficient for a real...
Nowhere has the attempt to justify Japan's role in World War II been argued more vehemently than in the prestigious intellectual monthly Chuo Koron (circ. 180,000), which recently concluded a 16-part series by Novelist Fusap Hayashi. Tojo's execution as a war criminal, argues Hayashi...
What nobody will question is that Nazi SS men were often savage sadists, that Jewish survivors of Buchenwald endured incredible torments, and that a bunch of high-ranking political hostages bottled up in a Bavarian castle keep and threatened with execution would try very hard to escape their German jailers...
This is unpromising in summation and wholly unreadable in execution. The author's method is to teeter on the window ledge of actuality for a few sentences at the beginning of each chapter and then jump into vagueness, singing like Ophelia.