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...back home, and if the attention isn't adequate to his desires, the money probably is. He looks like a comfortable member of the bourgeoisie, outwardly indistinguishable from your average real-estate salesman except for his cowboy hat. The hair is cut regularly, the face is rounder and clean-shaven, and the middle is spreading a little. Success has been pretty good for Jerry Jeff...
MARK HELPRIN LOOKS well-scrubbed. His face, in a vaguely romantic photograph on the back of the dust jacket, is clean-cut and clean-shaven; the face of a liberal, New York-bred college graduate. It comes as no surprise is that he went to Harvard. What is more of a surprise is that he once served in the British merchant navy, the Israeli infantry, and the Israeli Air Force. In the title story, "A Dove of the East," and in others scattered throughout the book, Helprin re-creates the people and places of his travels. The settings of these...
...This serves to demonstrate that there is a gentle nature lurking beneath all that calculated vulgarity. In any event, they are reunited. He allows her to stuff herself with candy the way he fed fish to the seagull, and in the end he watches her die horribly, her head shaven, her eyes bulging with fear...
...formal American sculpture and directed its "look." The art demands an artificial space, cold or meditative, in which nothing competes with the object. An extreme example is the work of Barnett Newman, the late dean of minimal art. Several of his austere steel pillars are dotted on the rolling, shaven greensward of one of Newport's more lavish mansions, The Elms. Isolated in their white museum cubicle and garnished with the rhetoric of sublimity, all Newman's sculptures look imposing. Here they might as well be garden gnomes. Not so with the work of David Smith, represented...
...grave note in an old man's voice, through the stark interior of a working man's kitchen, through the whiskered, burnt faces of workers discussing politics in a bar. Even Barrera's face seems to change with the chronological shifts in the movie, from the full-boned, clean-shaven, clear-eyed vigor of his revolutionary days to the meticulously-combed, vainly-mustachioed, narrow-eyed shiftiness of his union leadership. Such details help the film to capture a mood of quiet despair, a despair that speaks all the more eloquently because it is woven into the film's texture free...