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Among Hazzard's many strengths as a novelist, none is more dazzling than her ability to display the inner world of her characters in a few lines of lucid, supple, periodic prose. In Grace and Caro, "a vein of instinct sanity opened and flowed: a warning that every lie...
Mad Max is a punk-gothic horror movie about a gang of vicious hot-rodders who terrorize the few survivors of an atomic apocalypse, and who are tracked down and slaughtered by a draconian police force. As a story, the film makes for overwrought, even repellent melodrama. The movie has...
The story was not fogged in myth, like that of Romulus and Remus; it occurred in the bright morning sun of the Enlightenment, with a generation of astonishingly literate men in attendance. From a distance of 100 years, Henry Adams, normally a man of elegant bitterness, looked back at that...
At 5 ft. 11 in., 165 Ibs., Borg is lean as a greyhound, his limbs long and supple, his shoulders almost incongruously broad. He practices at tournament speed four hours each day to keep in condition. No other player spends more time in workouts. Bergelin explains Borg's success with...
Mozart: The Six Viola Quintets (Juilliard Quartet with John Graham, second viola, Columbia; 3 LPs). The best complete set of these masterpieces since the recording by the Budapest Quartet with Walter Trampler. The playing is supple and urgent, fully equal to the symphonic sweep of the great C major quintet...