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...terrible poignancy to the film. The fact that Maxwell struggled for a decade to realize the project (even mortgaging his home to retain the rights to Michael Shaara's Pulitzer- prizewinning novel, The Killer Angels, on which he based his screenplay) lends a certain critical tolerance to one's view of the film, which lingers too long over the preparations for engagement, contains perhaps too many couriers galloping up with exposition and concludes with a battle that is handled rather distantly and bloodlessly. These flaws, though, are minor compared with the acuity of the film's best characterizations, the vaulting...
...recordings Horowitz made for Columbia Masterworks from 1962 to 1973 (when he returned to RCA Victor) offers a happy opportunity to hear afresh Horowitz's brand of keyboard magic without the imposing presence of the man. Horowitz's Columbia recordings provide a distinctive but narrow view of his art. By the early 1960s, he had shorn himself of his reputation as a fire- breathing virtuoso, all flash and no substance. He began to deploy a wider, deeper repertory. The technique remained impeccable, but Horowitz made an effort to transcend his limitations and become a musician as well as a pianist...
...good name for a painter. Joan Miro died 10 years ago, and 1993 marks the centenary of his birth. It has been celebrated by a number of exhibitions in Spain, where the centerpiece was a large retrospective in Barcelona. This week an even bigger Miro show goes on public view at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City: 291 paintings, drawings, sculptures and ceramics, put together by art historian Carolyn Lanchner. Miro got his first retrospective, at MOMA, more than half a century ago, and now he is getting the treatment reserved for the heaviest guns of 20th...
...small number of people,'' Smith says, ''although we kept Salomon Brothers as a backup. We did all the negotiations ourselves. No outsiders.'' Maintaining the secret became easier once the Paramount bidding war broke out in September and grabbed the attention of Wall Street and the media. Like Malone, Smith views the Paramount fight as a side issue. He envisions the new Bell Atlantic more as a toll taker on the electronic highway than as a provider of entertainment and information. ''What we're looking for are arrangements with programmers to use our platform,'' says Smith. His ''platform'' is basically...
...every point, avoid the forces of propriety. Chief among these are Ferris' sister (Jennifer Grey), who just hates the way he gets away with everything, and the dean of students (Jeffrey Jones), who distills all the pettiness of spirit and smallness of mind in a teen's view of adult authority. Jones provides John Hughes with the comic mainspring he needs to launch himself successfully in a new direction. In The Breakfast Club and Pretty in Pink, Hughes portrayed adolescent angst in a fairly realistic light. But from the moment Ferris turns to the camera to address the audience...