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Much of that disintegration takes place as he watches his beloved Tadzio dance on the beach. The Royal Ballet's 19-year-old Robert Huguenin (who, true to the novella, never speaks) is sinuous without being sickly sensual. This restraint probably errs in the excessively angular choreography Sir Frederick Ashton has designed for the cavorting boys on the beach. Yet it is an effective use of ballet as a symbolic vehicle...
...ultimate Rascoe exile-Margaret in the title novella-is a film editor trying to splice all her scenes together in the futile hope they will spell home. This means renegotiating her definition of family with a half brother she has not seen since she was six, parents on the verge of divorce and an old lover whom she seems destined from birth to reject...
Only in America could you fill The Golden Bowl with seltzer and sell it. Few writers have had the talent and self-awareness to exploit such a cultural aberration as well as Roth. He fizzed onto the scene in 1959 with the award-winning Goodbye, Columbus, a novella whose tartness and clarity showed precisely what it was like to be a young Jew from Newark, N.J., ashamed of his lower-middle-class background and humiliated by the pretensions of the suburban newly rich. There followed two grim and carefully worked novels in which Roth misplaced his fresh, astringent tone. Letting...
...style is frequently called the Gatsby look, a catch phrase that doubtless will get a boost with the remake this year of a movie based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's novella. French magazines are calling it le style tennis or the Deauville look. But it might just as easily be described as the Newport-to-Palm Beach mood, or the John Held Jr. look (after the cartoonist who lampooned the '20s) or the Devereux Milburn look (for the '20s polo hero). Polo, tennis and golf-not as they were played but as they were watched-are central...
SUNDAY: The Red Pony. Henry Fonda and Maureen O'Hara star in a mangled version of the John Steinbeck novella. CH. 4. 8:30 p.m. Color...