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...audience: "If you believe, I can make you all feel like children." So speaks the endearing Scatman Crothers, presenting the gift of renewed youth to a home full of old folks. Once again Spielberg is cranking up the magic machine that has served him so well. This time the spell does not hold; one can hear only the machinery, purring like a contented windup kitten...
...least in its shortened theatrical version, Fanny and Alexander never quite achieves the bedtime-story spell it strains for. The good feeling of the first scenes should be as warm and steady as the lights on a Christmas candelabrum; instead it seems more an act of the director's will...
This sense of alienation is easy to understand. The subjects of Heilbut's study were, after all, no ordinary group. Most were intellectuals who would have been restless in any culture. It is doubtful, for example, if Brecht ("Wherever I go, they ask me, Spell your name") would have been happy anywhere on earth. Others, like Mann, never really understood the nation they first overpraised, then cursed for being imperfect. Some, like Writer Gerhardt Eisler, were Communists, hypocritical in their horror at the House Un-American Activities Committee. Heilbut's defense of these emigres seems disingenuous: "If Einstein...
...England and on the Continent. The most important part of it belongs to the British royal family and is housed at Windsor; it comprises the many sketches Holbein made of the nobility and gentry at the court of Henry VIII during his two sojourns in London, a short spell from 1526 to 1528 and a long one of eleven years that finished with his death, of the plague, in 1543. Much of this oeuvre is on view until July 30 at the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York City, where it is amplified by material from the library...
With power so perilously poised between the two factions, the gain of a single seat by either camp would spell drastic changes in hotly debated city-wide policies such as zoning and rent control. So the release this spring of the first results from the 1980 census takes on special significance. The figures indicate that the racial balance, the occupational mix, and the number and type of homeowners have all changed substantially in the past decade. And while prognostication at this point is difficult because the statistics have yet to be broken down by neighborhood, city mavens agree that...