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...novelist, she is, as they say, looking good, an attractive woman of about 5 ft. 7 in., taking her ease in an oversize white sweatshirt, jeans and sneakers after a morning photo shoot. For the moment, turbulence is below the surface, but as McMillan's longtime agent Molly Friedrich says, "You don't meet Terry, you experience Terry. She's truly a force of nature...
...picture of Jesus' life. The earliest appeared to have been written some 40 years after his Crucifixion. Which was most accurate? Even Luther had a favorite Gospel (John) and appeared to regard the rest as less essential. And starting with the 1835 critique The Life of Jesus by David Friedrich Strauss, apostles of the new scientific method raised additional questions with increasing urgency: Might faith have caused the writers of all four Gospels to embellish on actual fact? Did the politics of the early church cause them to edit or add to Jesus' story? Which parts of the New Testament...
Organized by three curators--Friedrich Teja Bach, Margit Rowell and Ann Temkin--the exhibition is beautifully installed, with every piece given its due of light, air and space. It contains more than 100 sculptures in wood, stone and marble, together with the remarkable bases Brancusi made for them and backed up with a host of photographs that document the life in his Paris studio. (Since Brancusi took his own photos, they contain important clues about how he meant the pieces to be grouped, viewed and interpreted.) Already seen in Paris, the show won't go anywhere after Philadelphia; this...
...saddened to read of the pass- ing of one of the world's premier magazine journalists, Otto Friedrich [TO OUR READERS, May 8]. As a historical writer, I was enormously impressed by his highly readable and brilliantly analytical articles on the outbreak and consequences of World War II. I recommend that all thoughtful citizens read his insightful contribution to Time's 50th-anniversary issue on World War II [Aug. 28, 1989] at least twice...
DIED. OTTO FRIEDRICH, 66, writer; of lung cancer; in Manhasset, New York. Boston-born Friedrich first hit his stride during his 1960s tenure at the Saturday Evening Post. During his subsequent years in the pages of Time and in his own nimbly crafted nonfiction, Friedrich emerged as an elegant explicator of just about everything: Superman, insanity, the pop art of Hollywood, the high art of pianist Glenn Gould, the collapse of German democracy, the demise of a rose garden...