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Rockefeller filled his Manhattan living room with reproductions he said gave him the same pleasure as the originals, which he also owned. For those of us not lucky enough to possess a Matisse, Rockefeller offered to "share" his collection. "They ought to have it around," he said, "I think it does something to you to live with beautiful things...
...Ohio's second largest city?behind Cleveland, ahead of Cincinnati?with a metropolitan population of about 1.1 million, and shows signs of considerable prosperity, it does not have a major symphony orchestra, a notable theater, a ballet troupe, or a big-league art museum. It also does not possess a single tablecloth restaurant of even one-star distinction. If you want a good French dinner, they say, try Maisonette or Pigall's in Cincinnati, a two-hour drive. For topnotch Chinese food, head for Pan-Asia in Cleveland, northeast on the interstate. Some swear that a first-class Northern Italian...
...grim drama about the existential anguish of last resorts. The play is fascinating even when its revelations are most appalling. Presented at off-Broadway's Hudson Guild Theater, Devour the Snow differs markedly from the spate of terminal situation dramas now in vogue in that it does not possess a moment of comic relief. Polsky means his play to be harrowing...
...Carter when the new President was working out his own thoughts, and Fallows came to regard Carter as lacking in "sophistication," even "ignorant" of how power could or should be exercised. Though Carter holds "explicit, thorough positions on every issue under the sun," Fallows charges, he does not possess any unifying political philosophy. "He thinks he 'leads' by choosing the correct policy," writes Fallows, "but he fails to project a vision larger than the problem he is tackling at the moment." Surrounded by aides who mirror his own limitations, Carter displays "a combination of arrogance, complacency, and-dread...
...materials are certainly saccharine. The lovers not only are adolescents but possess near genius IQs. Daniel (Thelonious Bernard), the son of a Parisian cab driver, is a movie buff with the auteurist sensibility of a Sorbonne professor and the computer know-how of an M.I.T. grad. Lauren (Diane Lane), the stepdaughter of an overseas American corporate executive, reads Heidegger for kicks. These two meet, go steady, then flee their meddling parents by traveling by train with Olivier from Paris to Venice. Hokey as it seems, this film's Romeo and Juliet want to pledge their eternal love by kissing...