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Beethoven: "Diabelli" Variations, Alfred Brendel, piano (Philips). The publisher asked Beethoven for one variation of a simple little waltz tune; he wrote 33, and a masterpiece. Brendel performs with style and insight, verve and elan...
Eyes on the Prize II (PBS). Henry Hampton's first documentary series about the civil rights movement stopped at 1965, just when things were getting complicated. His sequel continued the story, from the Black Panthers to busing in Boston, and sorted out the issues with the same insight and evenhandedness...
...idea is that codependents, either from troubled families or in relationships with compulsive people, develop emotional response patterns like those of spouses and offspring of alcoholics, and that these learned but unconscious behaviors shape their future relationships and lives. This insight is not foreign to traditional psychotherapy. But unlike traditionalists, believers in codependence -- and the Anonymous philosophy -- enlist a democratic and emotional revivalism to uncover an individual's secrets. This populist alternative rejects the relationship between the weak patient and the superior, distant doctor or therapist. "We're talking about a group of people like myself who bottomed...
...like Soviet leaders before him, a master of doublethink. Sheehy eventually turns this standard Orwellian idea into what she calls her own "shattering insight . . . There is no bottom line to the Soviet socialist ideal -- it's a snake pit of hypocrisy...
...screen. The story of the siblings has provoked innumerable books, plays and films -- including one appropriately titled The Royal Family. But none approaches the work of Margot Peters, biographer of Charlotte Bronte and professor of English literature at the University of Wisconsin. The House of Barrymore brims with insight, scandal and anecdote; even in death, Ethel, Lionel and John cannot stop entertaining the audience...