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Peter Dickinson is that rare novelist who is equally at home with the inward stare of psychological fiction and the outward thrust of political commentary. That duality is reflected in two themes that reverberate through most of his books: the impact of a family's guilty past and the doomed meeting of the industrialized and the underdeveloped worlds. Both themes merge, stunningly, in Tefuga, the story of a British journalist's trip to Africa to make a docudrama about his parents--a diplomat and his young artist wife whose well-meant meddling provoked a long-ago international incident. The journalist...
...holds himself out as an apostle of judicial restraint. Federal judges, he asserts, should not impose their personal views on the law or stray beyond the intent of the framers by reading broad meaning into the Constitution. Yet judicial restraint has another meaning: judges are also supposed to respect stare decisis, the established precedent handed down by past judges. Rehnquist has been less respectful of Supreme Court precedent, especially the decisions of the liberal Warren Court. His critics sometimes accuse him of disingenuously twisting history to fit his own views. "Don't forget, Rehnquist is a radical," says Columbia...
...Valley to spend a day with Molly Ringwald, movie star and exemplary California teen. The northern Los Angeles home she shares with her parents and older brother and sister is modest, cluttered, comfortable, welcoming. "Sometimes her fans get the address and drive by real slow and stare," says Molly's mom Adele, "but then, I guess, they say, 'Naw, that can't be Molly Ringwald's house.' " Along with her family, the 18-year-old star of Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club and Pretty in Pink copes with fame by hiding in plain sight...
...face belongs to his wife Ada, whose liquid brown, slightly melancholy eyes and handsomely curved nose recur in image after image, making her one of the most pervasive "presences" in American art since Marilyn Monroe. Ada makes an early appearance in a black sweater, with the characteristic level stare, in 1957; by 1972, in Blue Umbrella No. 2, she is a creature of formidable glamour, radiating a Monica Vitti-esque wistfulness in the rain (the slightly blurred expression is given by the three highlighted dots on each pupil), her pink and red scarf an homage to Bronzino, a raindrop neatly...
...plot of Highlander would make the Flat-worlders Society gasp with incredulity Immortal beings who can only be killed by decapitation battle with broadswords in modern day Manhattan for a prize of ultimate enlightenment? And all this accompanied by a Queen soundtrack? Simple fantasy characters like Conan could only stare uncomprehendingly at such a ridiculous plot...