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...well-written book, Thomas Powers proposes an explanation for the German failure. That his case is not entirely persuasive does not dull the book's fascination. It is a kind of police procedural, an examination of international intelligence gathering -- the sort of material Powers handled so smoothly in his splendid 1979 look at Richard Helms and the CIA, The Man Who Kept the Secrets...
...like subtitled dialogue in talky French movies, some of Bourre's sentences probably read better in the original. "The mouth," he notes at one point, "acts as a trial laboratory as well as a processing plant, and it's also an artist at work." The author, though, has a splendid eye for culinary trivia. In the Germanic dukedom of Saxony, noblemen who illicitly married commoners were punished by being force-fed pepper until they died. The builders of Egypt's pyramids were paid off in onions. The Roman scholar Pliny was startled by the high retail prices of the Eternal...
...George F. Walker, one of Canada's leading writers yet largely unknown in the U.S. -- although his Beautiful City, part of a trilogy touching on the same family, has just finished a run in Chicago, and Nothing Sacred, an adaptation of Turgenev's Fathers and Sons, had a splendid production starring Tom Hulce at Los Angeles' Mark Taper Forum in 1988. Walker's work certainly travels. Although Escape was originally set in Toronto, Lewis' staging makes it feel entirely American, from the opening moment, when a battered TV onstage starts blaring The Donna Reed Show, to the snarling climax, when...
...absolutely outstanding," said department Chair Benjamin M. Friedman '66. "He's a wonderful scholar and a splendid teacher...
...actors' shoulders. Teyssedre deliver, the best performance in the movie, evolving from the sober young teacher of the beginning to a mature and self possessed woman. Teyssedre makes Jeanne an intensely likable creation and provides the film with its radiant core. Beautiful and petulant, Darrell gives a splendid performance as Natacha, a confused and complex eighteen year-old wavering between adolescence and adulthood...