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...German inclination is to savor success without dwelling on the past. Kohl, whose physical bulk and blunt manner seem to personify the big new Germany, called the Yugoslavia decision "a success for German foreign policy." Genscher flatly said, "We were right!" For their part, Germans feel frustrated when they are criticized for doing things that would seem benign if done by virtually any other country. It is time, say many Germans, to reap the benefits of 45 years of good conduct. What they want is responsibility commensurate with duty. "When it comes to paying, everybody says, 'Germans to the front...
Okay, but what about the Cambridge-area youth who's not into sophistication? Does he or she have to labor over a line drawing of the prehistoric Doedicurus, with a stubby "raw sienna" crayon? Or is there hope for kids who want to savor their childhood--and their neon Crayolas--for a few more years...
HOWARDS END. E.M. Forster's novel of property and prejudice in Edwardian England is voluptuously rendered by director James Ivory and handsomely peopled by Emma Thompson, Helena Bonham Carter, Vanessa Redgrave and Anthony Hopkins. See it to savor the glory that England once was -- and that movies, all too rarely...
There will always be reviewers who feed the industry with free advice or easy quotes. Some, like Medved, think they are doing their job. Others like to see their prose in 96-point type ("The Citizen Kane of alcoholic clown movies") or work for magazines that savor free publicity in a movie ad ("Peter Travers, Rolling Stone"). But in their little black hearts, ! critics know they have scant individual power. "In order to effectively buy critics," Schickel says, "a studio would have to buy 10 or 20 of them...
...Peter John Gomes seems an unlikely target for moral rebuke. Since 1974 he has served as minister of the university's Memorial Church and Plummer Professor of Christian Morals. Although worship attendance has been voluntary at Harvard for a century, collegians crowd the sanctuary each Sunday to savor his eloquent, engaging and scholarly sermons, which are typically more concerned with spiritual growth than with social activism...