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...life completely credible to a contemporary audience. To be sure, there is one angry, rebellious black youth who stalks the community giving the sweaty white lawmen a mean time, but he is portrayed as a vicious psychotic who can easily be vanquished by Newt's storybook morality and radiant goodness...
...LOVES OF ISADORA is a biography of Dancer Isadora Duncan that has been severely truncated by the distributors. Still, Vanessa Redgrave as Isadora conveys a radiant grace and joie that the rest of the cast sadly lacks...
...LOVES OF ISADORA is a biography of Dancer Isadora Duncan that has been severely truncated by the distributors. Still, as Isadora, Vanessa Redgrave conveys a radiant grace and joie that the rest of the cast sadly lack...
...result was a group of painters loosely classified as "romantic minimalists." The history of Ralph Humphrey, 37, and Dan Christensen, 26, is characteristic. A year ago, they displayed pictures that consisted of properly minimal strips floating on luminous backgrounds. This year, Humphrey and Christensen have moved on to more radiant styles. Since "minimal" no longer applies in either case, "romantic" may be the surviving term...
Nabokov, who is essentially a prose poet, has always had something quite different in mind. "By poetry I mean the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words," he has explained. "True poetry of that kind provokes not laughter and not tears but a radiant smile of perfect satisfaction, a purr of beatitude?and a writer may well be proud of himself if he can make his readers, or more exactly some of his readers, smile and purr that way." When as a young man in Berlin, Nabokov decided to translate an English masterpiece into Russian, the book he chose...