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THERE IS something obsessive about the criticism that tags after posthumously published works. It is as if every line ever written by our fading literary heroes on the backs of envelopes and rolls of toilet paper must be exposed in a perverse invasion of privacy masked as scholarship. But what...
It could hardly have happened to a thinner talent. One gets video tape after video tape of Nauman gravely smearing his body with black or green makeup; Nauman distending his mouth in froggy grimaces at the camera; Nauman Walking in an Exaggerated Manner Around the Perimeter of a Square; and...
The lovers are Charles and Helene (Perkins and Marlene Jobert), the adopted children of a dotty millionaire tyrant named Theo Van Horn (Welles). Papa has used his fortune to re-create meticulously the year 1925. "It was an exciting time to be alive," he explains over his nightly gourmet repast...
CLEVELAND. No matter what guise it takes-crime, impending bankruptcy, inadequate service-there is only one campaign issue in Cleveland: Carl Stokes. Last April, as Stokes announced that he would retire from city hall, the city was fouled with bitter black-white acrimony. Whites held him responsible for dividing the...
Despite these signals of diminished tensions, however, all is far from well between the two. For the past six months, in Chinese-language broadcasts over Radio Moscow and "Radio Peace and Progress," the Soviet propaganda outlet for the Far East, Russia has relentlessly attacked the Maoist regime for everything from...