Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...making of a '70s porn star (played by the artist formerly known as Marky Mark, no less) evolves into a touching, refreshingly quirky family drama, as the "star" finds himself part of a veritable clan headed by Burt Reynolds' would-be-visionary filmmaker. Director Paul Anderson displays a remarkable eye and ear for the fluffy vacuousness and conspicuously awful taste of the disco era, while paying cinematic homage to the period's greatest directors...
...have complaints, many of which sound like the horrors that would supposedly have taken place under the Clinton plan: rationing of procedures, a narrower choice of doctors. Fueling the backlash has been a spate of front-page stories about plans that will pay for cataract surgery in only one eye or that keep doctors from discussing expensive types of care. In a recent nationwide poll by the Kaiser Family Foundation, an independent health-care philanthropy, 55% of those in managed care said they worry that their health plan is concerned more about saving money than providing the best care. That...
...Museum of Modern Art in 1988, Diebenkorn, who died in 1993, never had a fair deal from New York museums. The city's cultural establishment viewed him as, well, a California artist--a bit of an outsider, a bit marginal, insufficiently difficult or radical, too easy on the eye, whatever. Diebenkorn, one of the most flintily self-critical artists who ever lived in America, took this in his stride, and his oeuvre (closed, alas, too early) handily answers his detractors. Nobody who cares about painting as an art--as distinct from propaganda, complaint or "cutting edge" ephemera--could be indifferent...
DIED. JOYCE WETHERED, 96, unflappable first lady of the links; in London. Unknown and not yet 19, Wethered easily outshot Cecil Leitch at the English Ladies' championship in 1920. Her textbook swing and unswerving concentration (once, a passing steam locomotive failed to distract her eye from the ball) won her four more of those titles and four British championships...
...chosen to play it safe by repressing his desires. And, fortunately, several of the play's most powerfully written moments have translated well to film. Especially remarkable is a pivotal scene in Dachau in which Max and Horst, forbidden to touch and kept under the ever-vigilant eye of their guard, make love to each other by using only words--and discover that orgasm really is in the mind...