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...sparsely narrated action scenes of the book are interrupted by long sections during which Maspero has Cat meditate on what he has learned and who he has become. None of these sections quite rings true--they are too pat and preachy, as in Cat's huffy rejection of the pallid values of his aunt and uncle...
...best New Age music, however, feeds a largely unarticulated hunger for an alternative to juvenile rock 'n' roll and formula pop. As much of rock has degenerated into pallid imitations of Led Zeppelin, and the wallets and midsections of the baby boomers have fattened with age, new vistas in pop music have opened up. Major labels such as Warner Bros. and CBS, which releases the recordings of Harpist Andreas Vollenweider, are issuing New Age recordings, and Gramavision has signed up New Age Musicians Steve Halpern and Kitaro...
...always with the same assurance, in numerous media: fresco, watercolor, pastel, oil on canvas, sketchy washes over silver leaf. His work embraces a lot of art-book references, from the overripe baroque of his native Naples to Tantric symbolism. It is full of occultism, tarot, necromancy, devils, Sabbats and pallid sexual grotesquerie. It always looks hasty. It is heavy on the orifices: eating, coupling, defecating; the mood varies from mysterioso rhetoric to voyeurism. One moment Clemente is quoting poses from Giulio Romano's illustrations to Aretino to Indian miniatures (he spends part of each year painting near Madras); the next...
...official Democratic assessment of the state of the union, a 30-minute prerecorded TV film, was an oddly pallid presentation. Based on the discussions of four informal "focus groups," each made up of two elected officials and a dozen or so members of the public, the program was partly an exercise in self-criticism and partly a pep talk. Democratic officials defended the approach as an effective way of proving to voters that the party is engaged in a reappraisal of its appeal from the grass roots up. Said Mark Johnson, an official of the party's House Congressional Campaign...
Hunt has always tried to separate himself from Helms as much as possible, but it is clear that though he supports Mondale, the Governor would also like to dissociate himself from the pallid image of his party's Presidential nominee. Hunt is more moderate than Mondale on such issues as tax increases and the nuclear freeze, both of which he opposes, and on the death penalty, which he favors, but he has had trouble getting voters to look carefully at his record in an emotional campaign dominated by vitriolic television and radio advertisements. Helms seems to have successfully maneuvered both...