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...JOHN SINGLETON COPLEY IN AMERICA," the show of some 75 paintings that opened last week at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art, is a thoroughly absorbing affair. There has never been any doubt about Copley's importance to American art. He was the best portraitist the young colony produced in the 18th century. He was also its second major cultural expatriate, after Benjamin West. His career falls into two halves, the first set in provincial Boston and New York, the second in imperial London. And yet, fine as his English work was, one may prefer his American paintings...
Training camp may be breeding more questions than answers for the Big Green of Dartmouth. Junior Jon Aljancic, senior Ren Riley and senior Jerry Singleton are at war for the quarterback spot. Pete Oberle, who sat out four games of 1994 with knee injury, may or may not be able to go this season...
...possible mistrial in theSusan Smithmurder trial was thrown out by Circuit Judge William Howard, who ruled that an accidental contact between a juror and a member of the Smith family--apparently in a hotel laundry room--was of no importance. Sara Singleton, grandmother of Susan Smith's ex-husband, said "it was innocent. . . it was stupid," in comments that seemed to confirm she was the family member in question. The sentencing phase of the trial, which began today, could last up to a week. Smith was found guilty of two counts of murder last Saturday...
...John Singleton directs the earnest Higher Learning...
...aren't really characters; they are points on a rigidly conceived political spectrum. From the moment you meet him, you know, for example, that Rapaport's miserable character has only one fate and one function: to bring the movie to a predictably bloody, conventionally instructive but emotionally abstract conclusion. Singleton has made all the right political moves given his complicated circumstances, but he hasn't really made a movie of them...