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...raining in Paris, a cold, sideways rain. The Louisianans had their new, flat, virgin passports stamped and got on their buses, which spread them around among four hotels. They were tired now. There was no whooping, no hollering. They had talked of tearing the town apart, but in the end they were as docile as garden slugs. The only recorded incident of aberrant behavior occurred at the Hotel George V, where, according to Manager Paulo De Pol, a man tossed his cowboy hat into the air, demanded a car and driver, and expressed the intention of hitting every...
...Lotto's The Annunciation on its own is a joy. It is one of the strangest lyrical effusions of the High Renaissance, a painting that almost (but not quite) ruptures its own decorum in the interests of poetry: the Virgin, momentarily out of her wits, cringes before the prospect of divine insemination, while God makes ready to descend from the sky like a high diver; the ethereal angel, pale blue and ivory, gestures threateningly; a tabby cat arches its back in terror, as well it might...
Culture Club: Colour by Numbers (Virgin). Lead Singer Boy George may look like Peter Pan at a transvestite Mardi Gras, but this band purveys a straight and joyous brand...
...Wilson only toyed with Giles and Tibba, this would be a flashy piece of fictional ice skating. But while the author humbles his proud pair, he also proves to be a tender provider in the end. Wise Virgin (there are none here outside the old manuscript) is both deeper and more compassionate than Wilson's earlier novels, as if he had put aside the temptation to echo Evelyn Waugh's inimitable malice and had found his own balance between light and dark comedy...
There are some other signals for a firm future here. Wilson easily inhabits a variety of worlds and reports on them with zest: the crannies of scholarship in Wise Virgin, cabinet-level politics in Scandal, the Roman Catholic clergy in Kindly Light, the vagaries of medicine in his best previous book, The Healing Art. That is an impressive range. He once declared that "most novels that are any good are written by novelists in their middle age, who have written many books." A.N. Wilson is busy. -By Martha Duffy