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...UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING by Milan Kundera, translated by Michael Henry Heim; Harper & Row; 314 pages...
...aged friends. Matthew (Michael Caine) and Victor (Joseph Bologna) escape to Rio to offset their mid-life crises with some warn weather adventure. When the movie opens, Victor is already in the midst of a divorce, while Matthew receives a rude awakening when packing with his wife Karen, (Valerie Harper) for Rio. Karen informs Matthew that he cannot put his snorkeling equipment in her suitcase because she has decided to go to Club Med to think their marriage over...
...this does not necessarily mean that Harper's is catering to The People's Almanue generation, nor is it necessarily a bad thing to change every once in a while. But George V. Higgins in his "Literary Life" column in The Boston Globe was one of the few people who not only prasied the new look, but admired the courage it took to make the change Most other commentators pelted Lapham and his brainchild with the verbal equivalent of rotten fruit. The Crimson editor who suggested this story fully expected that I would "trash" the new magazine, and after reading...
...Harper's isn't that bad Really. It does have problems, most obviously the hamburger-helper layout, which features lots of blank space and confusing or pointless graphics. They also haven't figured out how many columns they want on a page, and the new typeface is hard on the eye. Their "Annotation" (applying the techniques of history to a confusing modern document), which featured a doctor commenting upon a hospital bill, was almost laughably silly And the greatest problem is that unless their succession of short articles; tables and charts are extraordinarily compelling, they tend to vanish from...
Those who read Harper's because of Kinsley will probably throw up their hands in disgust and join great Harper's writers like Wilfrid Sheed and David Owen in jumping ship. But the new Harper's is not hopeless or craven, just different. It's still witty and informative, and the counterman at Nini's Corner reports that it's selling very well. At the very least it deserves a chance to prove itself...