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...another Dutch film, combines phoney detective dramatics with comic violence and political protest, but impromptu performances by Lene Lovich and Nina Hagen more than compensate for lapses in the story. When they sit together at a bar, spontaneously crooning up lost melodies and inhuman sounds in deadpan seriousness, they win the "Lucy and Ethel of the Eighties Award" hands down...
...Connecticut on weekends for picnics and such with Louise and their children, Mary, 15, and John Joel, 10. During the week Knapp commutes from his Manhattan office to his mother's house in suburban Westchester County. He usually arrives late because he spends the evenings with his mistress Nina in the city. At home, his children grow aimless and petulant. Visions of Peter Frampton fill Mary's head and threaten her chances of passing a summer-school English course. Obese John Joel's idea of a perfect day is: "Have Mary out of the house. Have...
Knapp, for example, tries to penetrate his wife's loneliness with an insensitive sexual prank that involves a duck's foot taken from a Chinese restaurant. Louise doesn't see the humor: "Is this what you and the New York girls are into?" Hardly, as Nina can verify. She suggests that Knapp uses her apartment as a refuge, and he comes to see her point: "She was right that he hid in her apartment. He was hiding from himself, or at best playing peekaboo, pretending it was a safe game and that there were only little surprises...
...their Italian hosts. The first sentence filed by Bernadine Morris of the New York Times: "For the people who gave you the Renaissance, organizing a week of fashion shows is like child's play." Some writers found all the exotica useful. Said the Washington Post's Nina Hyde: "I like to write about what the buyers are wearing, what the fashionable restaurants are. Don't you think that's a lot more interesting than whether a blouse is blue or pink...
...Nina Schneider has taken the title of her remarkable first novel from The Tempest: "What's past is prologue." The woman who lived in a prologue is a canny, cultivated Jewish matriarch who looks back upon her life story as a relentless series of false starts. As Ariadne Arkady tells it, hers was the archetypal "womanly" existence destined for the girl child born to immigrant parents around the turn of the 20th century. Denied a college education by her doting but traditional father, she is matched to an accountant with a Sephardic pedigree and a prim nature that denies...