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Onstage, with her long arms and legs embracing the cello, her straw-colored hair falling over her shoulders, and her pink-cheeked English face radiating health and happiness, she looked a bit like Alice in Wonderland grown to womanhood. That was one reason why Jacqueline du Pré emerged as the darling of worldwide concert audiences while still in her early 20s. Another was the graceful and eloquently soulful way she played her cumbersome instrument. Her tone had an auburn glow, her phrasing a masculine power, and her programming showed an equal devotion to old favorites (the Schumann and Saint...
...Blue Line does have the most romantically named station--Wonderland--and its cars are ancient, but somehow winning. After Maverick, it's all elevated, and there's a Queens-like ride along the beach. Ride the Blue Line during the summer, or late spring, and be sure to stop off at Revere Beach, the best thing on the coast this side of Coney Island...
...early Disney is seen as high art. The animals get cuter and more anthropomorphic, the forest glade more compulsively spotless, the characters blander; and having deprived Mickey of his rattishness, Donald Duck of his foul and treacherous temper, the Disney studio had no qualms about ruining Alice in Wonderland or Kipling's Jungle Book for the kids as well. Yet within the natural bounds of his style, especially up to the late '30s and his masterpiece Pinocchio, Disney repeatedly pulled sequences and single images that seem destined to survive as long as the history of cinema itself...
...United States." With each new publication comes evidence that the lady meant exactly what she said. Her two most recent books have been about professions as well as people. Significantly, they are professions that are deeply revered and mistrusted for their power over life. Last year's Wonderland was about doctors-an old medical megalomaniac and his foster son. The new novel, her sixth, concerns lawyers. Marvin Howe is a Nietzschean criminal lawyer-vainglorious, corrupt, wondrously successful, obsessed with his control over people. His opposite number is less obviously a monster. Jack Morrissey defends social outcasts and agitators...
Oates is seldom mentioned in the list of activist women writers, but one of her favorite themes is how women fall apart through marriage and dependence on a man. Some are destroyed, like Dr. Pedersen's alcoholic wife in Wonderland. Others-like Loretta in them-survive and grow tougher. Elena leaves her furniture and furs to take responsiblity for her own life. But on the book's last page she fecklessly returns to Morrissey, just as he seems to have got clear of their disastrous affair and adjusted himself to his marriage. Is she a temptress, a wanton...