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DIRECTOR and WRITER: AGNIESZKA HOLLAND...
KEVIN PHILLIPS HAS BUILT A REPUTAtion as the dependable fortune-teller of American politics. BOILING POINT: REPUBLICANS, DEMOCRATS, AND THE DECLINE OF MIDDLE-CLASS PROSPERITY (Random House; $23) is not as boldly predictive as his earlier books: he compares this nation's fate to that of 17th century Holland and late 19th century England -- two economic powerhouses that declined under the weight of indebtedness at home and overexpansion abroad -- only to suggest later that the parallels may not hold up. But Phillips' statistics and his pictures of suburbia provide a rich backdrop to last November's election -- an instant context...
...love hatched in the process, since it was presumably unnecessary to get things started in the first place? Furthermore, what has sustained romance -- that odd collection of tics and impulses -- over the centuries? Most mass hallucinations, such as the 17th century tulip mania in Holland, flame out fairly rapidly when people realize the absurdity of what they have been doing and, as the common saying goes, come to their senses. When people in love come to their senses, they tend to orbit with added energy around each other and look more helplessly loopy and self-besotted. If romance were purely...
Born in Belgium in 1929, she spent her adolescence in World War II Holland. She lost family to the Nazis, often went desperately hungry, and occasionally carried messages for the Resistance in her shoes. The war was a horror, but it left no discernible scars. Perhaps that was a little part of her magic: after slaughter and in the midst of chilling political uncertainty, the world found a grace in her that it yearned for. She seemed serene, but she was quick to laughter. She was ethereal -- she gave a credible performance as Rima, the bird creature in Green Mansions...
George and Maida Abrams, the owners of the pieces in the show, have spent years amassing a large collection of drawings. The exhibit includes works by de Gheyn, van Ostade and Rembrandt and his pupils, among others. These drawings were valued in 17th century Holland as independent works; in other countries, such pieces were merely preliminary sketches for paintings...