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...Nowadays, if Rip Van Winkle were to fall asleep in the Soviet Union, he would only have time for a very short nap before finding that everything had changed!" It was Ronald Reagan in a familiar mode, the storyteller. But he had an unusual circle of listeners: the foreign affairs committee of the Supreme Soviet. The former President made a five-day tour of the Soviet Union last week, his first visit to the erstwhile Evil Empire since his 1988 summit with Mikhail Gorbachev. He got a warm greeting from Gorbachev at the Kremlin, where the two embraced like...
...Federal regulation now puts us in the policerole," he said. "Our policy in the past was in theeducation mode...
...only objectionable experience on my visit to the Mapplethorpe exhibit at the Boston ICA was the piece of red paper stuck on the windshield of my mode of transport that I found upon returning from a three-hour feast of pure visual exhilaration. It seems that in situations like the Mapplethorpe fiasco, everybody has to pay some price...
...mode of such Hollywood classics as Double Indemnity and The Big Sleep, these cable-noir thrillers feature tales of murder, treachery, lust and double-dealing. The mood is somber, the detectives usually disillusioned and the blonds nearly always dangerous. A bit more graphic in sex and violence than network movies, cable-noir films go straight for the gut. And their aim is true. The cable networks may get more attention for their high-minded docudramas (Mandela) and gourmet remakes (Charlton Heston in A Man for All Seasons). But these unpretentious B movies are their doughy bread and butter...
...merit rapture, but the movie also has wit and grace in a film era of witless gross-out. Scan the bold sweep of the narrative, which poses ripe dilemmas of career, love and family for a loner sleuth. Hum the songs written by Stephen Sondheim in his (hummable) Follies mode and splendidly performed by Madonna and Patinkin. Attend to the bold filigree work of the film's supporting cast of rogues, most of whom are devil- dolled up in grotesque prostheses and outlandish mannerisms but are given ample room to strut their stuff. Their leader is Pacino...