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...Carey is at the top of his form. Best known for Oscar and Lucinda (1988), an inspired account of a pair of star-crossed Victorian lovers, Carey specializes in comic compulsiveness, the obsessions that lonely people in underpopulated landscapes create to give some center to their lives. These fantasies seldom lead to anything but trouble and unexpected consequences. Gran Catchprice's desire to destroy what she and her late husband have built seems understandable, given her original expectations: "The only thing she had ever wanted was a flower farm, but what she got instead was the smell of rubber radiator...
FRANK SINATRA: A TOUR DE FORCE (Bravura). A live bootleg recording of a 1959 concert in Melbourne, Australia, with the Red Norvo Quintet. It's not only Sinatra's generic greatness that makes this one a must. He seldom worked with small groups, and the agility of Norvo and friends really gives the Chairman room to move. And when Sinatra moves, the earth does...
...Seldom has such a complicated knot of racial politics and hagiographic pride been expressed with such economy. Director Spike Lee's baseball hat emblazoned with a silver X -- created to promote his forthcoming film on Malcolm X -- is grass-roots iconography of a high order. Two years ago, the ubiquitous- superhero-logo-of-choice was that of a white playboy-vigilante who dresses like a bat; now it is a real-life black pimp turned philosopher...
...Seldom has such a complicated knot of racial politics and hagiographic pride been expressed with such economy. Director Spike Lee's baseball hat emblazoned with a silver X -- created to promote his forthcoming film on Malcolm X -- is grass-roots iconography of a high order. Two years ago, the ubiquitous- superhero-logo-of-choice was that of a white playboy-vigilante who dresses like a bat; now it is a real-life black pimp turned philosopher...
...road," says Arthur Triche, an executive with the N.B.A.'s Atlanta Hawks. "But some of them are willing to call every hotel in town. When night falls, they move in. You see some of the same faces from town to town. They're like card collectors." And they are seldom shy about intentions. Recalls Miles McPherson, a former pro-football defensive back turned preacher: "When we went to clubs, women would be competing in any way to get to us, and it is very easy to take advantage of that situation. Some said they wanted an autograph, and then they...