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These tapes show Johnson at a time when he thought he could talk openly and unctuously to the media. His wilder moments, while they were the endless topic of inside gossip and mirth, rarely surfaced in print. That time would end within a few months, but not before he had one last fling at fulsome flattery. From a call to the New York Times' Arthur Krock: "Well, Arthur, you're a mighty wonderful friend . . . and I need you now more than I ever did before, and I read your column just this minute . . . and I just thought how fortunate...
...manner that does the author of Wuthering Heights proud. In the world portrayed by Campion, the characters have no defense against the passions that threaten to overtake them. They are foreigners transplanted to a strange new land where the senses rule. Life is overpowering here: the sea is wilder than in England, the rain more forceful and abundant. The jungle teems with life, and the knee-deep mud threatens to hold the inhabitants fast. The majority of the colonists attempt to barricade themselves against the overwhelming fecundity of the land, closing ranks and trying to maintain the forms...
...balance, the U.S. and other Western powers have acquitted themselves fairly well in supporting the new, improving Moscow. Their ministrations in calming even wilder frontiers have, in contrast, been notable duds. George Bush decided to let Europe settle Yugoslavia. Europe decided it needed the U.N., which decided it needed America, which is where Bill Clinton, famous critic of Bush's nonpolicy toward the Balkans, came in. Clinton, who also inherited Bush's more active strategy for Somalia, embodies the tendency of privileged nations in appearing newly allergic to foreign affairs. By ^ everything he has said and done since taking office...
...BOTTOM LINE: Billy Wilder's satire of Hollywood still evokes the pain of losing fame, but musicalizing it has added little...
Lloyd Webber's goal in recent years has been to bridge the gap between the musical and the opera, reclaiming the latter as a popular rather than elite form. An operatic reading does no disservice to Billy Wilder's film noir, which has been preserved more than adapted. The climax, when the fallen star Norma Desmond shoots her lover and he tumbles into a swimming pool, has opera's larger-than-life emotion. So does the denouement, as she lapses into madness and announces, to a Cecil B. DeMille visible only to her, that she is ready for her close...