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Dean was not, as Alexander posits, the first movie star to project androgyny. (See the early films of Gary Cooper and Cary Grant.) It's true that in East of Eden a whore calls out to Dean, "Hello, pretty boy." And yes, he was pretty: slight and muscular, his body compact, his face beautiful, seraphic, smudged, sleepy-eyed and quite American. Yet his appeal was not the girlish winsomeness of a catamite. It was the lost soul of the postwar teen, glamourized for the movies. In '50s film, that looked revolutionary. Today it just looks brilliant. Dean was important...
...maybe a few of these stories feel a little slight for inclusion in a $20 book. But you'll read these stories at least twice, since you'll want to recite them to anyone who'll listen. The slightly obsessive narrators of these stories make them particularly suited to out-loud readings (most of them were probably created for National Public Radio). Sedaris has a masterful ear for popular culture talk--arm-chair psychology, tabloid gossip, etc. He is particularly sensitive to that time-frame known in contemporary chit-chat as "right now"--as in "I'm really interested...
...time in the hall results in an acoustic clouding that renders the sound more two-dimensional than one might expect. Very exposed passages (e.g. the wind soli at the beginning of the second symphony's Allegretto grazioso) suffer less from the reverberation, and the sheen makes up for the slight lack of warmth. A final quibble: the effect of dynamic contrast is also dulled to a certain extent, with the ends seemingly a bit truncated at both ends of the spectrum...
...President hits the TV airwaves at 8 p.m. EDT to take his case for health-care reform to the people -- and to fight a slight 40 percent approval rating. The news conference has shaped up as Clinton's last-ditch attempt to pressure Congress for meaningful reform before summer's end. Also on the agenda: Haiti and Rwanda.WHILE THE PRESIDENT explains himself, join us in Time Daily News Chat to critique his performance, beginning...
Consumer confidence, running consistently high for the past few months, took a slight dip in July, down to 91.6 from June's 92.5. Dow Jones industrial average down 6.16 points, closing at 3735.68 . . N.Y.S.E.'s composite index down 0.48, to 250.24 . . . NASDAQ stock market composite index fell 1.22, to 715.66 . . . American Stock Exchange rose 0.44, to 434.50 . . . Gold up $2.20, to $387.10 on the Commodity Exchange in New York . . . The 30-year Treasury bond closed with a yield of 7.54 percent, up from 7.52 late Monday...