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Egypt After Sadat--Herman Ellts, Hanna Batatu, Guldo Goldman, Mona Makram Ebeld and A.J. Meyer; Kennedy School Forum...
...hard to find anyone intelligent today who believes art still moves from lower states to higher, but ten years ago, Kitaj was much scorned in some circles for not believing it and saying he did not. "In the terms of my own life and its present needs, the Mona Lisa is more profound, more 'real,' more timely, less dated .. . than almost any picture I can think of since Cezanne put his brushes down in 1906." That is Kitaj practicing with the crust (if not the mantle) of his curmudgeonly hero, Degas...
Once the bill becomes law in early October, Justice Minister Robert Badinter intends to turn over custody of one of the two surviving guillotines to a Paris museum, where, he predicts, "it is going to have the same attraction as the Mona Lisa." An avid collector of memorabilia involving the device, Badinter purchased the document signed by Louis XVI legalizing the guillotine for executions in 1791. The King died under the blade 18 months after approving its use. Reflects Badinter: "I don't think the machine gave him much satisfaction...
...aunt, Mona Washbourne has only to loosen her hair and widen her eyes to be transformed from a bustling peas ant into a feeble dotard, nodding off after lunch. Glenda Jackson has specialized in self-absorbed eccentrics, but, as Stevie, she makes the familiar lilts and snappings sound new. Through the subtlest shadings of this fiercely independent soul, Jackson gradually recedes from the viewer's awareness, and the gentle Stevie takes over. The film's movement toward American release has been even more gradual; it was made in 1978. Now Stevie is here, not drowning but sailing with...
...merely has to smile frequently at you," addmitted crusty Field Marshall Montgomery, "and you trust him at once. " But if that grin became as famous as the Mona Lisa's, it was also enigmatic. Behind the aging Huckleberry Finn face was as shrewd and calculating a mind as has ever won a war or run a country. Dwight David Eisenhower, his diaries make clear, could have given a few lessons in statecraft to Machiavelli...