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...High court considers another affirmative-action program
...professional school admissions (as in the Bakke decision of 1978) or of company job-training programs (as in last summer's Weber ruling), but of a congressional award of a share of federally financed local public works contracts to minority-controlled businesses. The case, on which the nine high court Justices heard oral arguments last week, should help to further define the still murky limits to which affirmative-action programs may go in redressing racial imbalances...
...remembered chiefly for his Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects, an informal, even gossipy collection of biographical studies of the great and near great of Italian art. This boxed three-volume re-edition, translated by Gaston Du C. de Vere (Abrams; 2323 pages; $225), is of high quality on the inside with gemlike tip-ins, though a touch tacky on the outside with spines of imitation leather. Real cloth would have been classier...
...pure spectacle, allowing his movie to get off to a rousing start. As the camera wanders around an exotic ship traveling near North Africa in 1946, there is mystery and sensuous excitement at every turn. In one corner of the ship, middle-aged adventurers silently play poker for a high-stakes pot of dazzling gems and religious icons. In another, a bizarre team of white-gowned Arabs zealously guards a shrieking black Arabian stallion. When a storm strikes late one night, the film provides a shipwreck of classic proportions. In a series of corrosive, lightning-quick cuts, Ballard does...
Laura Antonelli is such a straightforward and cheerful girl, neither brazen nor falsely modest when called upon to shed her clothes, the high point, of course, of all her movies. So it seems a shame to place her in the lugubrious context of a picture like The Divine Nymph. The film is yet another period piece, this time set in Italy during the 1920s. One be gins to wonder if the people who produce Antonelli's movies are under the impression that so lush a lady simply cannot be accepted in a contemporary context. Or it may be that...