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...only are things not what they used to be, but it is so long since they were what they were that few can remember what they might have been. Indeed, one of the main uses of these big compendiums of current art is to enable the watchers on the prom ontory to vent such lamentations. In a world of instability and doubt, now that modernism is formally over but art keeps obdurately being made, one of the mottoes of the conservative critics is Ishmael's in Moby Dick: "The drama's done. Why then here does...
...proposals that hold the most prom ise in experts' eyes, like speedy trials and penal reform, are widely deemed to be too expensive ever to come to pass...
...Italian Harper's Bazaar. Then, since she was there and why not, she chummed around with Franco Zeffirelli, who directed her latest film, and helped Designer Valentino show his spring collection, keeping an eye out for one of his dresses to wear at the high school prom back in Englewood...
...once-a-year night. It's The Party, The Prom, The Carnival, The Game, The Event. It's the Dancing-in-the-Streets Night, the Crying-in-your-Beer Night, the night when, for six hours, Boston becomes a hockey jamboree. It's The Beanpot. See you on the T, sports...
Jamie Lee Curtis gets into the worst scrapes. Tracked and trapped by homicidal maniacs in Halloween and Prom Night, deposited by leprous spooks into The Fog bank, and now manhandled by a psycho transsexual on a Terror Train, Curtis is the new virgin queen of shivers. No-nonsense intelligence shines through her friendly, angular, leonine face (a gift from her mother, Janet Leigh, who pioneered the modern horror trend 20 years ago by taking a bloodbath in Psycho). Thus when she flees into a dark closet or abandoned sleeping car-where, of course, the evil one waits, knife...