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What Steve has instead is awful, desperate Al (Brooks is, of course, a peerless portrayer of all the great American falsities -- piety, humility and the good cheer with which we habitually mask desperation). Steve also has his own violent innocence, which tests the limits of Al's smarminess hilariously. The...
He's not the only one. The Times' Frank Rich has called O.J. "a self-perpetuating cultural industry, with tentacles reaching into every branch of show biz." Where there is show-biz, there are bound to be glitter-seekers. A woman who lied about seeing O.J. at the murder scene...
With the Quad as it was first conceived, such divisions would be plastered over. The Freshman Union would be renovated, and everyone would be happy. Folklore and Mythology could swap tales with Women's Studies. Classics professors could find out what they had in common with their colleagues in Afro...
Larry McMurtry's splendid horse opera Lonesome Dove was a marvel of nostalgic bosh, and that same rare gift for making heroic tales from small-town street sweepings is on view in his new novel. Pretty Boy Floyd (Simon & Schuster; 444 pages; $24), written with McMurtry's screenwriting partner, Diana...
Literature and Arts A-18. Fairy Tales and the Culture of Childhood