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...DIED. WALTER WRISTON, 85, financial guru who as chairman of Citicorp from 1967 to '84 redefined the way Americans use banks and set the stage for the company, now named Citigroup, to become the world's largest financial institution; of pancreatic cancer; in New York City. Witty, widely read and dedicated to hiring minorities and women--he was known to sneak women into management posts by using only their initials in correspondence--he expanded bank branches worldwide and offered diversified services like credit-card lending, mortgage banking and real estate development. But his most popular innovation came in 1977 when...
...militantly contemporary, insatiable in her appetite for culture and truly, madly, deeply conversant with every new development in fiction, philosophy, film and art. With the great turbines of her critical judgment turning, Sontag patrolled the latest edges of world culture, bringing back news of the philosophers Simone Weil and Walter Benjamin, the novelist Witold Gombrowicz, the critic Roland Barthes, the filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard...
...forgive the unforgivable? A man named Walter (Kevin Bacon) has served 12 years for child molestation. Now he's out--on probation--and trying to make a life for himself. He works in a lumberyard. Vickie, a good, tough-talking woman (Kyra Sedgwick, Bacon's real-life wife), is interested in him. But curiously, he takes an apartment across from a school yard. Less curiously, the police, his sister and those fellow workers who know of his past suspect that he will not be able to stay clean. And Walter himself, intermittently assailed by his old lusts, is not entirely...
...result is a marvelously controlled yet very sympathetic film. We are never quite sure about Walter, especially when he begins following a little girl. And chatting her up. The threat to him, to her, is real. And it creates in us a very itchy unease. We fully believe two contradictory things about Walter: that he means to be good and that he could go bad. It is a rare movie that so neatly, so unpretentiously insinuates such a conflict in a character, and it is equally rare for an actor to suggest that inner turmoil as subtly as Bacon does...
...still to be admired, even if he is also abhorred. Eschewing stereotyping for true character development, Kassell forces her audience to walk a fine line between sympathy and disgust. Leaving the theater, viewers must be content to accept both their repulsion and their admiration for Walter. Often disturbing, sometimes difficult to watch, but always stimulating and emotionally charged, The Woodsman is a powerful and staggering work, and it is not to be missed...