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...Pantheon; 437 pages...
Unable to remake their nation or count on rescue from abroad, large numbers of Burmese seek solace in the ghostly world of nats, the pantheon of spirits whose influence predates Buddhism. Despite the military siege, thousands of pilgrims entered monasteries all over the country last week. They prayed, tucking money into the clothing on figures of the nats. Then they sought out the astrologers who line the covered walkways around the temples. Questioned about Burma's future, one astrologer in Mandalay cast a wary glance over his shoulder to see if anyone might be listening. Then he whispered, "Burma...
GEORGE MICHAEL: LISTEN WITHOUT PREJUDICE, VOL. 1 (Columbia). Michael's previous album, Faith, was a monster hit, and the biz expects this new record to push him into rock's commercial pantheon. Maybe. It's a schizy piece of work: part bombast, part hypercharged pop. Pop prevails, but it's a struggle...
Watching Henry & June, though, the moviegoer wonders at the controversy. One might expect sexual fireworks aplenty in the literary love story of Henry Miller (Fred Ward) and Anais Nin (Maria de Medeiros), two residents of the sex-as-art pantheon, and their put-upon spouses (Uma Thurman and Richard E. Grant). But Kaufman is a gent who dreams, ever so fastidiously, about nymphs and satyrs. And here he cannot find the moviemaking skill to suit his fine passion. His actors look stranded; with the exception of the tremulous, bewitching De Medeiros, they indulge in huff and bluster...
...seems likely that historians will judge him more kindly than many of his contemporaries do. He may even find his way into Poland's pantheon of 20th century heroes, joining Walesa and Jozef Pilsudski as men who marched briskly to the tattoo of their times. "Some time will have to pass before Jaruzelski can be looked at by Poles in a completely objective way," says Professor Adam Bromke of the Polish Academy of Sciences. "But time may work to his credit...