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...standards began to find their masterpieces knocked off by New York department stores and the emerging Seventh Avenue garment district. A dressing table by French designer Léon Jallot is a riot of color and molded wood - oops, that's the copy made in New York for Lord & Taylor's department store...
...Choosing Obama as TIME's Person of the Year was so predictable. TIME has had a love affair with Obama since the day he announced his candidacy for President! TIME should change its name to the New Republic and follow the ideology of that publication's management team. Ken Taylor, Hartford, Tenn...
Choosing Obama as TIME's Person of the Year was so predictable. TIME has had a love affair with Obama since the day he announced his candidacy for President! Time should change its name to the New Republic and follow the ideology of that publication's management team. Ken Taylor, HARTFORD, TENN...
Should there be a moratorium on Holocaust movies? Stuart Klawans, the film critic of the Nation, says so in the Jewish magazine Nextbook (but not, oddly, in the Nation), and Ella Taylor tentatively endorses the suggestion this week in the Village Voice. Since these are two of the movies' most thoughtful commentators - who each happen to be Jewish - the proposal deserves consideration...
...Solution - Defiance, The Reader, Good (which prompted TIME critic Richard Schickel to call for a moratorium), The Boy in the Striped Pajamas and Adam Resurrected - are in theaters. A sixth, Valkyrie with Tom Cruise, is a Holo-cousin: it details a 1944 plot by German officers to kill Hitler. Taylor notes that since the early 1990s, when Steven Spielberg was preparing his Oscar-winning Schindler's List, there have been 170 Holocaust movies. (The Internet Movie Database lists 429 titles on the subject.) It has become not just a topic but a genre, one that, at its most reductive, exploits...