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...Midwest and narrated by a young, unnamed heroin addict, the short stories in Denis Johnson's Jesus' Son etch in steely detail a world where pain, violence and profound isolation are as regular as Happy Hour at the local bar. Beauty and horror alike commingle in visions of lyrical grace in the mind of the tortured hero. He ends the first story, "Car Crash," with a vivid hallucination and a cry to the reader: "And you, you ridiculous people, you expect me to help...
From New Year's to early February five African American men and women, known throughout the world for their achievements, their grace, and their indomitability, died...
...Republic, gorging herself from the steaming pot, while her infant sucks at her breast -- a continuum of blind appetite, expressed in rhythmical line. Here, the long Rococo tradition in French art of painting the lower classes as nifty milkmaids or idealized swains gets its coup de grace. Not all of Daumier's drawings have the fierceness of this one (how could any artist sustain it?), but they do share, in varying degrees, its essential spontaneity. His figures always seem to be going somewhere, doing something, and to be conceived in the active rather than the passive voice...
...Leary lacks the oratorical grace of Gray (Swimming to Cambodia) or the comic wisdom of monologist Eric Bogosian (Talk Radio), but he's learning. "When Leary first started doing stand-up, like all of us -- he sucked," says comic Eddie Brill, Emerson '80, a friend. That began to change after Leary's father died of a heart attack in 1985. In response to such an event, says Brill, "you can either go into a fetal position or do what Leary did -- just lash out. He became really deep and really funny...
Davidson carries fame's burden with blithe grace. He is recognized "constantly. And all one can say is, 'Thank you very much.' " It may be an apt rehearsal for his next role: as a celebrity in the Oscar-night audience. Last month, after he won the National Board of Review award for Best Newcomer, he said, "I am dying to make a speech, but didn't get to." Should the Academy award him an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor, he might take his cue from Judy Garland in A Star Is Born: walk onto the great stage, smile regally through...