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...every era has the right--maybe even the duty--to reinvent the Arthurian legend according to its lights, and so there is something instructive and entertaining about this version. Director Jerry Zucker has not spared the horses (or the broadswords) in mounting his handsome production. There are well-staged, smartly edited bursts of action at the approved modern intervals (every 10 minutes or so), the scenery is always pretty, and aside from Ben Cross's villain (imagine Pat Buchanan in not-so-shining armor), everyone is terribly nice, terribly agreeable. They are pleasant, altogether reasonable companions on this curiously jaunty...
...consequential than suburban adultery: "One can easily imagine Guinevere and Lancelot as Gwen and Lance, furtively smooching on the 18th tee during a country-club dance, or stealing glances across a crowded PTA meeting." Still, Schickel admits, "the scenery is always pretty" and "every era has the right to reinvent the Arthurian legend according to its lights...
American democracy must reinvent itself now "atthe exact moment that it seems we're sliding downthe slippery slope into anarchy and chaos," Westsaid...
...power of polling. According to a Clinton biography by David Maraniss of the Washington Post, Clinton and Morris had a falling out after that election, reconciled briefly in 1980 (even though Clinton lost his re-election bid) and then formed an unshakable bond in 1982, when Morris helped Clinton reinvent himself politically and develop the "permanent campaign" strategy that Clinton still employs. Possibly apocryphal stories abound about the two men staying up all night writing campaign commercials and of Clinton decking Morris over a disagreement about Clinton's treatment of his chief of staff, Betsey Wright. Coming to terms with...
...that there are two kinds of great writers: those who reinvent themselves with every work and those who pound away at the same obsessions again and again with each new piece. If Robertson Davies qualifies--and his reception in the world of letters as a great writer has been growing steadily for the last twenty years--he certainly belongs in the second category. Davies' consistent fascinations structure his whole body of work. The same questions run throughout his fictions, linking them thematically and formally. His writing gives the sense of a larger architecture, as if there is one great story...