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...fragmenting conventional narrative smoothness, the filmmakers also fragment any possibility of a smooth descent to a conventionally sentimental conclusion. As Chan Parker, Diane Venora is no orchestra wife. She is stern, protective, forgiving and touched by an awareness, never openly acknowledged, of how short Bird's passage is bound to be. Samuel E. Wright as Dizzy Gillespie, for whom Conscience might have been a better nickname, and Michael Zelniker as Red Rodney, the white trumpeter who shyly insinuates himself into a black man's world, make splendid sidemen to this life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: More Than One Note at a Time BIRD Directed | 10/3/1988 | See Source »

...instinct. Readers of The Guns of August (1962), The Proud Tower (1966) and A Distant Mirror (1978) have good reason to know that Barbara Tuchman possesses both in abundance. Yet she has never reduced history to simple causes and effects. Her books resemble jigsaw puzzles: start anywhere with any fragment and one can eventually assemble the whole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The American Dream, and Where It All Started | 10/3/1988 | See Source »

...seems to have been Braque's invention and not Picasso's. He made the first papier colle in 1912, Picasso following a week later. Moreover, Braque had been a house painter's apprentice and thoroughly understood the techniques of wood graining and false-finishing. He could reproduce a "real" fragment of a room, a table, a still life at will, whenever the image needed to be brought back to flatness and density out of the jumble of ambiguous signs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Glimpses Of An Unsexy Tortoise | 8/1/1988 | See Source »

...women, although infertile, appeared normal. The scientists showed that one X chromosome in these men always had a tiny bit of Y attached, while the women's Y chromosomes always lacked that same tiny bit. The TDF gene, they figured, must be contained in that fragment, which sometimes breaks off from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: It's A Boy, and Here's Why | 1/4/1988 | See Source »

...sheer quantity of stuff is also connected to a pervasive sense of cultural loss, for large as this show is, it is the merest fragment of the vanished whole it attempts to describe. No people in the history of Europe turned on their own traditional art with a more consuming fury than the English did on their medieval heritage. The destruction began in a small way with the random acts of zealots like the Lollards. They were enraged by the apparent contradiction between the Second Commandment ("Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image") and the "idolatrous" cult...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Blazing Exceptions to Nature | 11/30/1987 | See Source »

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