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...World and Nation sections, the rest is organized around five chapters with descriptive headings such as Public Images, the Changing Family, and Self and Society. Perhaps the most striking design choice is the cover image, a painting of a woman by Philadelphia artist Susan Moore. Editor Wallis thinks the portrait suggests that the woman is peering at the reader from behind a door that is partly open. "What does she see as she surveys the vistas ahead of her?" asks Wallis. "That was the question we wanted this issue to answer...
...book, which represents the first-ever compilation of Jones' polymorphous music, ranging from jazz to soul, pop to funk, performed by talents as various as Sarah Vaughan and James Ingram. The movie, the book and the CD, all produced and coordinated by Courtney Sale Ross, offer no definitive portrait. But they do provide a vivid personality sketch in bold -- and, in the film, often demanding and dazzling -- strokes of a man who's written and played fine music, produced films (The Color Purple) and records (Michael Jackson's Thriller) and generally become an immutable force of show-business nature. Sort...
Christopher Durang's The Marriage of Bette and Boo follows in the great American dramatic tradition of the family tragedy. This work, like O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night, is a disturbing, insightful and fascinating family portrait. The script highlights the issues of dreams unattained and reality denied as it tells the story of Bette and Boo Hudlocke, June and Ward Cleaver gone terribly wrong. The young lovers marry after knowing each other only two months, and by their honeymoon the traces of their later neuroses are already apparent...
...voice mellowed in good schools and fine port. Perhaps there is only a pretense of loving, but pretense is everything. As they argue in bed one night, Claus covers his eyes with a bandanna; both insert their earplugs. Then he holds her hand. It makes for a nice portrait of marriage in middle age: deaf and blind and touching in the dark...
...year ago this month, in the midst of a similar budget crisis, TIME's cover, featuring a portrait of George Washington with a large tear running down his cheek, asked the question "Is Government Dead?" The answer was: Very nearly. Twelve months later, if a long-term deficit-reduction package is not put into effect, the answer...