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...demolishing the accepted interpretation of the occupation. The Sorrow and the Pity challenged French filmmakers to come to terms with collaboration and to uncover its roots; by revealing that the Guallist state rested on the hollow foundations of historical myth which concealed continuity in the guise of change. Ophuls lent a particular urgency to his challenge. The progeny spawned by The Sorrow and the Pity have not yet begun to exhaust the avenues of investigation it opened. Bogging down in the confused psyches of its characters and the predictable suspense of its plot, Black Thursday obscures more than it illuminates...
...attempts to reassemble his life, he has at least found comforting surrogate parents in the U.S. They are Mrs. Saunder and Howard Oilman, board chairman of the Oilman Paper Co. A major patron of music and dance, Oilman has lent Baryshnikov a New York penthouse rent-free. Saunder and Oilman have introduced him to musicians like Cellist Mstislav Rostropovitch and Conductor Leonard Bernstein. Baryshnikov has plunged eagerly into an investigation of American culture. He spends his spare time at plays, operas and especially movies. He is a considerable student of television, whether afternoon cartoons or old movies on the late...
Theodore Sorensen's spare but sprightly volume focuses on a much narrower question: What now for the presidency? In the wry, graceful prose that lent class to the speeches of President Kennedy, Sorensen clings unfashionably to the liberal yearning for strong Presidents. Yet he admits that Kennedy, too, was error-prone and hobbled by the federal bureaucracy and congressional fief. Because "the power to do great harm is also the power to do great good," Sorensen would have his President strongly accountable to an aroused press, Congress, the courts and above all the people. On the grounds that...
...deriving meaning from the different scenes which will surround it on its tour this year. It is in itself a tacit event in the movements it describes, a realization showcasing many women's achievements and exemplifying them personally in the work of its designer. For Hiestand has decisively lent her voice to answer the 18th century writer Judith Sargent Murray's question, "Is it reasonable that a candidate for immortality, for the joys of heaven, an intelligent being...should...be so degraded as to be allowed no other ideas than those which are suggested by the mechanics of a pudding...
...with precocious Brother Auberon, 35, who turned out The Foxglove Saga 15 years ago. Evelyn satirized his peers and times by following sane characters through a giddy world. Harriet uses the much less engaging converse: crazy people, sane society. The father's unremittingly inhospitable view of humanity lent his books bite and pace. The daughter, so far at least, clearly shares his disdain for British foible, but cannot sustain it; when she lapses into tolerance, the novel drags. Even so, Mirror reflects a provocative and steely talent...