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...about my feelings and my truth." She has written some fine songs in the past, including (uncredited until 1984) the Stones' Sister Morphine, a jagged bit of Faithfull autobiography, and three cuts on her formidable 1979 album Broken English. But on Strange Weather she has put together a self-portrait from random sketches by such diverse artists as Jerome Kern and Bob Dylan. She makes the Otto Harbach/Jerome Kern Yesterdays into a devastating diary of faded hope and turns Dylan's superb I'll Keep It with Mine into a talisman of redemption...
...pretend its warm outside. And on those truly horrid days you can always go and look at Toulouse-Lautrec's "The Hangover" whereupon you will undoubtedly be much consoled. And if even that doesn't work you may go and empathize with Van Gogh's absolutely terrifying self-portrait...
This week we are taking Luce's and Hadden's notion one step further. The magazine is introducing a section called Profile, its seventh new department this decade and the first addition since Ethics appeared last January. Profile will consist of a telling, vivid word portrait of one or another of the world's most noteworthy people -- some of whom will figure in the week's news events, all of whom will be interesting. Says Executive Editor Ronald Kriss, who will supervise the section: "There was a time when this magazine featured 52 faces on its cover in the course...
Meyers' ingenious group portrait shows his subjects linked by a kinship of misery. Colleagues praised Roethke's hectic, incandescent verse and gossiped about his violent breakdowns. He described his electroshock therapy in rhyme: "Swift's servant beat him./ Now they use/ A current flowing/ From a fuse." The jolts were useless. He died of a sudden heart attack at 55. Jarrell was not content to be the best poetry reviewer of his time, says Meyers, "he had to be a great, perhaps the greatest poet -- or he was nothing." It was during one dark time that the writer, 51, fell...
...acting in Dragon runs the gamut. The character of Mattie is handled adeptly. Though she sometimes stumbles on lines and can be soppy at emotional moments, Choi really conveys the portrait of the girl who's made it, a glitzy woman who turns her cultural heritage to profit. Mattie's brother Johnny (Yongjin Im) has fabulous lines like "Cantonese sweet 'n' sour goes straight to your scrotum, but Im is at times overly theatrical. And his accent does not exactly match those of the characters of his brother Johnny or his parents...