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...office hit for four weeks this winter. Ethereal beauties Ryder and Thurman earned Oscar nominations last week- Ryder for her role as Jo in Gillian Armstrong's Little Women and Thurman for her portrayal of a heroin-sniffing Mob wife in Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction. Hawke has been winning rave reviews for his role as a charmingly scruffy, Auden-quoting romantic in Before Sunrise. In the meantime, Mary-Louise Parker and Drew Barrymore (the former E.T. child star and teenage drug abuser who has matured into a confident young actress) have garnered praise for their performances in the current...
...debut novel, Private Altars (Random House; 322 pages; $21), Katherine Mosby audaciously bucks such fashionable themes, and the result is a stunningly lyrical work of fiction. Set in the South during the 1920s and '30s, the novel revolves around the suffering of Vienna Daniels-a woman, Mosby writes, whose "face had the stamp of character intelligence sometimes bestows, and the look of ruined beauty...
...truly daring thing about The Boys (a work of fiction inspired by several real cases of Canadian children abused by Catholic clergy) is not the statement it makes but the questions it raises. The agony of young Kevin (bravely played by Johnny Morina) finds its evil twin in the torment of Lavin (a brilliantly implosive turn by Henry Czerny). Here is a man isolated in his lust and duty; years later he says to a psychiatrist, "I'm not afraid of you. I'm afraid...
...pain of the people he was supposed to punish that he could not bear to come down hard on them. He became hostage to his own sympathies and railed at pity with the fury of one who was its captive. The most sobering lesson of Greene's fiction is that sleeping with the enemy is most with us when we're sleeping alone; and that even God, faced with a wounded murderer, might sometimes feel himself agnostic...
...chronicled experiences and emotions from his own life with intricately crafted, eclectic blends of rhyme and meter; of a heart attack; while on vacation in Tucson, Arizona. The son of a founding partner of the stock-brokerage firm Merrill Lynch, he had a remarkably productive career that included plays, fiction, 14 volumes of verse and the 1977 Pulitzer Prize for poetry. DIED. J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT, 89, former Senator from Arkansas who founded the international exchange program now known as the Fulbright fellowships; in Washington. From the beginning of his political career, Fulbright focused on world affairs, submitting as a freshman...