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...COUNTRY. A Viet Nam vet (Bruce Willis) reconciles himself to his niece (radiant Emily Lloyd) and his country. Sounds like your basic TV movie, sunk by noble intentions. But here well meaning translates into well done...
...COUNTRY. A Viet Nam vet (Bruce Willis) reconciles himself to his niece (radiant Emily Lloyd) and his country. Sounds like your basic TV movie, sunk by noble intentions. But here well meaning translates into well done...
...NATURAL CURIOSITY by Margaret Drabble (Viking; $19.95). In a sequel to The Radiant Way (1987), the author offers a Victorian-style novel about some decidedly contemporary English women...
...world, America has lost some of its radiant pride of place. Japan has risen. Europe is organizing itself into a new collective power. The Soviet Union is struggling to escape the dustbin of history. Gorbachev, a magician of much elan, attempts to rescind the hoax of Communism without denouncing its idea. It is fascinating to watch a smart man trying to defend a premise that is beneath his intelligence...
...find Degas's true feelings about women, one should consult the pastels and oil paintings of nudes that he made, at the height of his powers, in the 1880s and '90s. Their bodies are radiant, worked almost to a thick crust of pastel matte and blooming with myriad strokes within their tough winding contours. But they are also mechanisms of flesh and bone, all joints, protuberances, hollows, neither "personalities" nor pinups. (One sees why Duchamp, inventor of the mechanical bride, adored and copied Degas...