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...What are these things? Anonymous structures of oats and wheat, circular, with conical tops. They look like primitive lumps, soft rocks. Why paint a lump? Partly, no doubt, because the grainstacks implied abundance, the nurturing power of deep France. But mainly because, in their very simplicity, they were a superb matrix for the changing effects of light and color. Sometimes Monet's grainstacks glow like furnaces, their shadow lines breaking into excited flurries of crimson and blue; sometimes they are dirty brown, between the inert pewter sky of winter and the white crust of snow...
...superb show of the artist's serial works of the 1890s -- depicting, among other things, grainstacks, poplars and Rouen Cathedral -- proves how much more than "only...
...20th century, is plunked into a situation in which his only problems are day-to-day adventures. His lifting of mood coincides with that of the reader, whose cynicism about sports drops away as these 19th century men delightedly play their boys' game. Fowler, moreover, is a superb observer, a narrator alternately sophisticated because of his 20th century knowledge, and raw and naive in his new predicament...
UNCLE VANYA. San Diego's Old Globe Theater finds all the humor and all the pain in a superb staging of Chekhov...
...certainly sees himself to be so. He has threatened to resign at least three times during the past five years, with little worry that his offer would be accepted. "Gorbachev is a superb actor," says the Carnegie Endowment's Dimitri Simes. "He rants to effect but is always in control. Like Reagan, he has a real sense of mission, but he is also a master of strategy and tactics, like Richard Nixon. And if you recall that Abraham Lincoln held off before freeing the slaves, and then consider how Gorbachev is astutely waiting for the time to be ripe before...