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It must have seemed like Barbara Walters Week at the White House. Barbara's name cropped up on the Administration's list of 87 journalists chosen to accompany President Nixon to China, making her one of three women in the entourage and the only woman who is not...
Outside the U.S.. the problems are only compounded. Germans tend to be on time to the second; the English tend to be either five minutes late or five minutes early. To be too exact is to be, well, a bit Teutonic, but to be more than ten minutes late...
Second, Clavell clearly has not been affected by any of the hysteria over recognition of film as a visual art which has forced some old pros and inchoate apprentices to strive hysterically for a "look": more specifically, a "now" look. From his work, I assume that Clavell would think even...
Despite a Teutonic tendency to grandiloquence and repetition, Sajer is brutally effective. He puts lice on that armchair reader, gives him an empty belly, and sticks him in a frozen mudhole. He loses him in the endless space of that "accursed Russian plain." He makes him feel the ache of...
Tidy Man. There are no novels about Klee, as there are about Gauguin, Modigliani and Picasso. For nothing ever happened to him. Even when the Nazis in 1933 began their suppression of cultural freedom in Germany, where Klee had been teaching for twelve years, he quietly moved back to Switzerland...