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Erté's current exhibits demonstrate his lifelong fascination with every permutation of show business and fashion. No graphic artist and designer of his time has displayed greater versatility and playfulness in creating modes of illusion. Take the mysterious objects in the Dyansen Gallery windows. Rococo confections of white...
But to the extent student politicos think they can really change the world with their programs when they get to Washington, they are laboring under an illusion. That, at least, is one of the messages of William Grieder's thoughtful, trenchant, and lively new book, The Education of David Stockman...
In Grieder's view, politics' grand illusion is that policy-making in Washington follows some coherent scheme--that politicians are in control, and that presidents in particular are capable of putting their plans and vision into effect. The illusion is that ideas about how the world works (and should work...
THE EXTRAVAGANZA now playing at Kirkland House is blessed with a lead actor who looks uncannily, definitively Messianic. From the moment Adam Isaacs strolls onstage in his white tunic, smiling and nodding at some 25 adoring followers, any doubts as to the feasibility of staging a gospel-inspired rock opera...
ONLY THE RED BULL and a few other downright evil characters show glimpses of animated genius. Every detail of the red-pink bull steams with uncontrollable evil--especially the transparency of its imposing body. Two peripheral characters--Captain Cully the peg-legged pirate cat and a pile of bones forming...