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"The course of true love never did run smooth," wrote the old Bard, and Eric Rohmer's adaptation of Heinrich von Kliest's 1808 novella in The Marquise of O shows just how contorted that path can get. A young marquise, fleeing from an invading army, is set upon by...
Keeley's skillful organization of the material enhances his thesis, for the essay progresses much as Keeley would have Cavafy's myth evolve--from the first tentative attempts to circumscribe a subject to the buildup of a multicellular organism in which each part functions to the betterment of the whole...
Died. Elmyr de Hory, 65, master art forger; by his own hand (sleeping-pill overdose); on the Spanish island of Ibiza. Hungarian-born De Hory painted under his own name until 1946, when he sold a small "Picasso" that he had executed. With the aid of a skillful fence, he...
In the Senate, the Democratic battle for majority leader is of immense importance to the Carter program. The majority leader usually sets the tone and acts as spokesman for Senate Democrats. Leading in this race is Senate Whip Robert Byrd, 58, of West Virginia, a conservative turned moderate. A skillful...
The novel's form-pursuit and confrontation-owes much to the conventional thriller. But Cutter and Bone is much more than skillful entertainment. The places and people ring true, from the desperate hedonism of coastal California, "where America kept trying out the future," to the Ozarks heartland, where piety...