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...such avant-garde classics as The Fall of the House of Usher (1928) and Joseph Cornell's Rose Hobart (1936), a work with such power to shock that Salvador Dali, in the first-night audience, kicked over the projector. Modern viewers should jump for joy at this collection--a heroic work of excavation and, at $99.99, an ideal Valentine's Day gift for and from film lovers. --By Richard Corliss
World editor Joshua Cooper Ramo came to understand the problems of AIDS in South Africa particularly well in December, when he traveled to KwaZulu-Natal to work in a swamped but heroic AIDS hospice. Working as a volunteer instead of as a journalist gave him an unusually close look at what it was like to live with and die of AIDS. "I'm a big believer that if you see a crime being committed and you don't do something about it, you are as guilty as the criminal," he says. "What's going on in Africa right...
ROBO HEART Only 2,000 human hearts are available each year to the 100,000 Americans who need one. When doctors tried 20 years ago to substitute an artificial heart, the experiment was a heroic failure attended by great public anguish. Now the FDA has approved--but only for testing--a new artificial heart: a grapefruit-size, battery-powered device called AbioCor. The robo heart will give patients limited mobility and is intended to be a permanent organ replacement, not a stopgap remedy...
...Visual Arts, with an additional background of architectural drafting in the offices of I.M. Pei. Every one of the seven essays in the show's thick catalog pays effusive tribute to the sum of LeWitt's virtues, his "openness" and his "honesty," his recoil from the cult of "heroic" personality and his generous encouragement of a score of his contemporaries, from the sculptor Eva Hesse to the critic Lucy Lippard. Selfless, sober, rational, public spirited--what, one is frivolously tempted to wonder, is such a paragon doing in the Whitney, an institution more noted in the '90s for staging tributes...
Officially the main attraction is the Chukuang Lou, a palatial exhibition center dedicated to the Taiwanese view of the island's heroic history. Black-and-white photographs of gangsterish officials in fedoras and long black coats are included among the multimedia displays...