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...mystic, Doig affirms a haunting interconnection of our present lives with what has gone before, and with everything around us. Winter Brothers is an astonishing effort to make sense out of a region, both historical and geographical, even as it begins its modern development. One finds here a vibrant, keenly felt consideration of what it means to live in the Northwest--or anywhere, for that matter. Ivan Doig brings the sense of space and time to a wonderful new tingle...
Senior Editor James Atwater, who was in charge of the Man of the Year project, first saw Reagan at the 1968 Republican Convention in Miami Beach. "He projected a vibrant political personality," says Atwater. This week's main story was written by Associate Editor Roger Rosenblatt, who came away from his first meeting with Reagan in December impressed by how relaxed Reagan was and by his good sense of humor. Says Rosenblatt: "He could turn out to be one of the most affable Presidents we've ever...
...away because their music endured; it became part of a common heritage, a shared gift. No matter how many times they were played in elevators or gas stations, Beatles songs were too vibrant ever to qualify as "standards." That these were Beatles songs, not the single expression of an individual, needs to be remembered amid all the Lennon eulogies, which call him the strong creative force of the group...
...spirit of the church scene is downright infectious, giving the actors a chance to prove that their fervor can overcome shoddy direction and logistical staging difficulties. In the end, they create a vibrant production that engrosses and entertains...
Modern letters are hasty and utilitarian, usually meant for one pair of eyes only. But by that token the best of them, like Woolf's, are also vibrant with immediacy, intimacy and often indiscretion ("Why," she asks, "is it so pleasant to damn one's friends?"). With her aristocratic sense of decorum she may have felt that their very privacy was what made them unpublishable. If so, she failed to reckon on this age's voracious, ransacking appetite for all that is private in a writer's life. As significant as her novels...