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...lower nobility. MacDonogh succeeds in painting a convincing picture of Trott as a victim of misunderstandings and Anglo prejudice. Unfortunately, only those thoroughly interested in the history of World War II will have the stomach to read the entire work. It is informative, but is marred by tortured prose and lack of direction...
BARCELONA by Robert Hughes (Knopf; $27.50). The biography of a city of rebels and craftsmen, home of the first submarine and once the world capital of anarchism, as told in erudite prose and dazzling detail by TIME's veteran art critic...
There will always be reviewers who feed the industry with free advice or easy quotes. Some, like Medved, think they are doing their job. Others like to see their prose in 96-point type ("The Citizen Kane of alcoholic clown movies") or work for magazines that savor free publicity in a movie ad ("Peter Travers, Rolling Stone"). But in their little black hearts, ! critics know they have scant individual power. "In order to effectively buy critics," Schickel says, "a studio would have to buy 10 or 20 of them...
...familiar props of the Hughes voice -- the mischievous erudition (translating a Latin motto as "Far down! Far out!"), the rococo diction ("fribblers" and "cutpurses" abound) and the Augustan bite (asides that wither "the mingy veneering of today's 'lite' architecture"). Beneath the virile lucidity of the prose, however, is a subtle and sensitive mind that can lead the reader, patiently, into complexity: "In Gaudi one sees flourishing the egotism achieved by those who think they have stepped beyond the bounds of the mere ego and identified themselves with nature, becoming God's humble servant but copying their employer...
Salisbury writes soberly in staccato prose that "from the mid-1960s to the early 1970s" -- the height of the bloody purges of the Cultural Revolution -- "Mao's quarters sometimes swarmed with young women." The Great Helmsman staged nude water ballets in his swimming pool. "Art ensembles" and "dancing partners" were standing by wherever he went. One of Mao's doctors referred to him bluntly as "a sex maniac...