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...SECRET HISTORY by Paul Theroux (Putnam; $21.95). Theroux has grown famous writing both novels and travel books. Now he produces an entertaining fiction about a man who does both, a teasingly autobiographical portrait of the artist as a young stud...
...born Orkache (pronounced Wu-er-kai-she as transliterated into Chinese) Dawlat in Beijing on Feb. 17, 1968, a native Uighur, in the midst of the Cultural Revolution, when an aging Mao Zedong fomented social unrest in the name of class struggle. A family portrait shows Wuer, age 1, holding up a copy of Mao's Little Red Book. Throughout the rigors of the period, his father remained a loyal member of the party who spent years translating the works of Marx, Lenin and Mao from Chinese into Uighur. When thousands of China's intellectuals were forced...
...with pricked ears and pointed muzzle makes a now-you-see-me-now-you-don't appearance among swipes of black and reddish-brown on the bare canvas ground, seems to reflect Winslow Homer's The Fox Hunt. Among the later paintings are versions of a Titian portrait, of a Flight into Egypt by Jacopo Bassano, and of a Manet still life: For E.M., 1981, in which the colors and placing of fish, copper pot and black wall remain as gleams and traces after the objects themselves have gone...
Marlane Meyer's The Geography of Luck, on another stage at the same theater, is an adroitly crafted portrait of assorted drifters, losers and desert rats that starts out sourly Sam Shepardesque yet ends in an eerie and touching echo of Saroyan's affirmative The Time of Your Life. But Roberta Levitow, normally a talented director, gave every scene the same pace and texture and allowed the frequent scene changes to dissipate energy and tension. Fortunately for Meyer, a staging under different direction is planned for this summer at Los Angeles Theater Center...
...office at the Kennedy School of Government sits a large Dukakis '88 portrait--unhung...