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...brother, who registers the dreamy horniness of adolescence; Lisa Banes as the most tolerant of mothers in a patriarchal family; and Jennie Dundas as Lilly, the half-pint-size author for whom life is just too short. These attractive actors often come close to embodying Irving's mes sage: the adhesives of blood and affection can help even a weird family stick together like Velcro. -By Richard Corliss...
...virtues it has traditionally valued are masculine ones: energy, efficiency, power, animus, each melodramatic plot resolved with a sock to the jaw. From French films one has come to expect delicacy, grace, comradely tenderness, a ruminative intelligence. Their directors seem to inhabit an exalted sorority where girlish high spirits, sage whispers and rueful endearments reverberate in the hallways. So leave it to French Film Maker Diane Kurys to devise, in Entre Nous, a bittersweet domestic epic that reconciles feminism with femininity...
...change is as much one of style a substance. Julia Child may shop at Sage's, but that doesn't mean it's a good place to pick up a gallon of o.j. Boutiques are ripe for window-shopping, but what if you really need to buy clothes? Gentrification is usually pleasing to the eye, but less kind to the pocket. And as time wears on, even the slick interiors and brass railings lose a bit of their gleam. The process just becomes too predictable--the porcelain tile tables and ceiling fans follow the influx of young professionals with clockwork...
Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr., who dismissed Calvin Coolidge as a Vermont hayseed - a view based in part on the writing of William Allen White, the Emporia (Kansas, that is) sage- is now being challenged by Thomas B. Silver of the Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship and Political Philosophy. Coolidge, claims Silver, may have understood his times well, and, besides, his famous line, "The business of America is business," happens to be true...
...struck, especially in the title piece. The final strains of Gustav Mahler's Ninth Symphony no longer evoke a musical metaphor for death's natural release. The long string passage now stirs images of the world's end. The reason for the change is that the sage has been caught up in the nuclear arms debate: "Words like disaster and catastrophe are too frivolous for the events that would inevitably follow a war with thermonuclear weapons... The preparations go on, the dreamlike rituals are rehearsed, and the whole earth is being set up as an altar...