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Brainard said the next step in the Smiley saga is to get the recovered maps returned to their rightful owners. Maps that HCL believes to still be missing have been advertised on rare maps and missing cultural property web sites since this summer...
...After This (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 279 pages), she is settled in once more among her postwar Catholics, telling the story of John and Mary Keane and their four children, a family saga that spans three decades, from the end of World War II to the 1970s. Vietnam makes its lethal appearance, and abortion becomes an option that even Catholic girls exercise, but don't come to this book looking for the Beatles or J.F.K. McDermott's preoccupations go much deeper than baby-boom artifacts, deeper even than mere history. What is it, she wonders, that holds together the loose fabric...
Grand Illusion Jean Renoir Perhaps the most beloved film on any list of all-time greats, this World War I saga prefigures many a Great Escape prison-camp movie--it pits a German commandant (Erich von Stroheim) against two captured French officers (Pierre Fresnay and Jean Gabin) in a gradually warming debate on the codes of honor and survival. But Renoir the humanist is no sentimentalist, as the film's French title makes clear: La Grande Illusion translates as The Big Illusion. This was the first Criterion DVD release, and the supplements show that the company was on its game...
...Italy's Cup" [July 17]: time was enthusiastic about the success and drama of the monthlong World Cup saga and described in superlatives various aspects of the games and their positive effect on Germany in particular. As a TV viewer who witnessed most of the matches, let me protest that, on the whole, the World Cup was one long soporific. In particular the final stages (the knockout rounds) were unspectacular, with long periods of passing the ball back and forth. Unless FIFA takes action to improve the flow of the game-for instance, reducing the number of players to nine...
...Many of Lenny's routines were either tart showbiz tales (his 20min. saga of a lousy comic playing the London Palladium) or just funny-silly (a woman comes home to find her husband in bed with a chicken ? a love object that, 10 years later, Woody Allen would turn into a sheep and, 35 years on, Edward Albee would make a goat). But the repertoire he had in mind was much broader, deeper, riskier than those. So, with a mixture of bravery and bravado, Lenny decided to bring the intimacy and threat of uninhibited talk to the nightclub stage...