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It was a gamble, but it appears to have succeeded. In releasing former Union Leader Lech Walesa after eleven months in detention, the government of General Wojciech Jaruzelski conveyed a new sense of self-confidence rather than any weakness toward Poland's still rebellious population. Now the focus is...
It's a shame that Creepshow fails so miserably, even as crude entertainment, because the initial premise is a good one. In the horror genre, King and Romero represent the opposite poles of safe commercialism and bizarre individuality, but here they both go back to their common root--the pulp...
The interior has two great faults. The main galleries, with their rhetorically high ceilings and towering walls of bushhammered concrete ("soaring" is the requisite adjective here), completely dwarf the paintings, turning Jackson Pollock's Blue Poles into a little silvery postage stamp. Worse, no role is played by Canberra...
No museum built in the past half-century has become so potent a source of local controversy. The gallery is entirely government-run on taxpayers' money. When Mollison bought Blue Poles from the American collector Ben Heller for the unprecedented sum of $2 million at 1973 exchange rates, the...
A train is a community. At each stop, we dash down the platform to the food kiosk, hoping for anything other than pickles and kefir. The day of tomatoes, eight of us have to sprint for the last car, and all the passengers cheer. The Poles, embassy staff returning to...