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...journalist was ruined when he took the job as mouthpiece for the White House. He is going to end up as spokesman for some corporation or lobbying firm. No matter what, he will be highly paid. My hat's off to him. Art Robinson LaGrange Park, Illinois, U.S. Madonna's New Baby I don't understand the controversy over Madonna's adoption of a Malawian orphan [Nov. 13]. Shouldn't it be taken as a sign of generosity and love? I think the media are to blame for all the accusations of impropriety. Doing something that may be seen...
Michael Crichton has made an excellent literary career scaring us about what will happen when our brains outpace our souls. In best sellers from the Andromeda Strain to Jurassic Park to his latest book out today, Next ("Welcome to our genetic world," says the teaser. "Fast, furious and out of control"), Crichton has for years been stoking the private ethics conversation that we are so clumsy at conducting in public...
...Last week, on a stinking hot morning, some 300 Year 7 students from the two schools were bused out to Tempe, close to Sydney's airport, for a clean-up of the Cooks River and some nearby parks; they listened to lectures about pollution, river quality and storm water, played games and painted a colorful canvas mural. The groups didn't mingle much at first; a few self-conscious attempts to break the ice came unstuck. Four Holy Spirit boys sulked under a tree, offended that some Muslim girls had laughed at their Asian names. Some Malek Fahd girls were...
...with crawling cameras, dozens of characters, overlapping dialogue, and a belief that life was way too messy and complex for ordinary film narratives. Any Western town (McCabe & Mrs. Miller), casino (California Split), reception (A Wedding), concert (Nashville), Hollywood power grab (The Player), L.A. earthquake (Short Cuts), country weekend (Gosford Park) or old-time radio show (A Prairie Home Companion) could be the setting for his artful chaos, which gave actors plenty of freedom, and writers nightmares. Receiving a Lifetime Achievement Oscar this year, Altman revealed that he'd had a heart transplant a decade ago. That borrowed heart didn...
...they brought in Charles Renfro as full partner two years ago--has been chosen to redesign large parts of the glamorous marbledom that is Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City and to convert an abandoned elevated railway line in lower Manhattan into a very unusual park. They had already completed a housing project in Gifu, Japan. And on Dec. 7 their first major building in the U.S., the new home of Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), will open on a prominent waterfront site as the first segment of the city's grand scheme...