Word: touche
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...different Courbet. He is a painter immersed both in popular art and in the traditions of his medium (Caravaggio, the Le Nains, Corot). He is inventive, yes, but not in a burn- the-Louvre way. He is an empiricist (though not without sentimental moments) for whom the sense of touch preceded that of sight. What the vibration of light would be to Monet, the force of gravity was to Courbet. It is the physical law that insinuates itself into almost every one of his images, confirming their materiality and stressing their essential subject matter -- the weighty body of the world...
...history. It takes its cue not so much from the buddy films as from Warner Bros. melodramas of the '30s, like Black Legion and They Won't Forget, which seized some social-issue headlines and fit them into brisk, dynamic fiction. % It is movie journalism: tabloid with a master touch. And the master, the suave manipulator, is Alan Parker. By avocation he is a caricaturist, and by vocation too. He chooses gross faces, grand subjects, base motives, all for immediate impact. The redneck conspirators are drawn as goofy genetic trash: there's not a three-digit...
SWEETEST COMEBACK Profiteroles, the tiny ice-cream-filled cream puffs, considered the glamour dessert of the '50s and long passe, are back in favor at newly fashionable restaurants. The final classic touch is the dousing of bittersweet chocolate sauce, a sundae kind of taste that is so essentially American...
That last touch -- the voice from Limbo -- is Davies' only deviation from strict narrative plausibility, and it is a minor one at that. Hoffmann cannot intercede in the proceedings; he is just another spectator along with the readers. Davies does not need spooks or disembodied souls to demonstrate that even the most mundane, realistic events can be steeped in magic. Simon Darcourt, an Anglican clergyman, a professor of Greek and the secretary of the Cornish Foundation, believes "that everybody had a personal myth," that people's lives unfold in accordance with invisible but implacable patterns. Despite his extensive education, Darcourt...
Many educators question the distinction between advising a student on his essay and composing it for him. Others fret that students may become so used to molding their personalities to suit the college market that they will lose touch with who they are and what they believe. Says Thomas Anthony, director of admissions at Colgate University: "The new approach robs the kid of working his way through a major life choice...