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...earnestness. Says he: "She never sloughs off a question. She really takes the process of communication very seriously." After attending a cover photo session, Henry was even more impressed by MacLaine's discipline. Says he: "She was to do a high kick, sometimes while turning and flipping a hat off her head. I counted, and she did it perfectly-47 times." One of the 47, happily, graces TIME'S cover this week...
...drastic change in mood that las descended upon Nicaragua's 2.9 million people. Only a few months ago, citizens eagerly rallied by the thousands to listen to the exhortations of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (F.S.L.N.). The reason: a willingness at that time to defend the 1979 revolution hat ousted Dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle against the increasingly bold attacks of "Yankee imperialism," embodied in the contra forces trained and supplied by the Central Intelligence Agency...
...where is Seurat (Mandy Patinkin)? Everywhere. Finishing a hat, making trees and boats appear with a wave of inspiration, forsaking his mistress and their child to remain faithful to the only dots that matter: those in his painting. "I am not hiding behind my canvas," he declares. "I am living in it." Only he could live there, where the emotional chaos of life can be made as ordered and harmonious as a green thought in a green shade...
...often doggedly mimetic, achieving its pointillist effects note by Johnny-one-note. Nearly every number begins with a staccato verse and chorus; it soars toward traditional musical passion only at midpoint, then withdraws into tart anticlimax. It takes a second or third hearing for ballads like Finishing the Hat, Beautiful and Sunday to betray subterranean seisms of feeling: ironic, wistful, profound, possessed. A heart beats under that starched shirt...
...title story, a megalomaniac writes a letter to a retired librarian, apologizing for an insult that the victim almost certainly does not remember. Small wonder. Some 35 years have passed since the young college teacher, raffishly sporting a baseball hat, walked by the library and encountered Miss Rose. She: "Oh, Dr. Shawmut, in that cap you look like an archaeologist." He: "And you look like something I just dug up." Herschel Shawmut has been reminded of his offense by a former friend, who has mailed him a blistering attack on what he was and what he has become: Shawmut...