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...President, he writes, "had no concrete program to dislocate and traumatize the here-and-now of American society") and so stunningly self-centered (the Reagan revolution was not Reagan's, "it was mine") that it provokes a bit of perverse admiration. Surely this is a hoax. The onetime boy wonder of the OMB has to be better than he reads...
...slick video for the project's rather schmaltzy anthem, Hands Across America, with soaring shots of rugged landscape and cameos of dozens of stars, was released last week. Groups ranging from the New York Road Runners Club (which organizes that city's marathon) to Boy Scout troops have signed up to help with the logistics. Kits have been sent to more than 8,000 schools. Some 340 paid staffers are already in towns along the way and are working with 40,000 volunteers who have signed up to be marshals...
...York City, 1944. After hearing a 15-year-old prodigy named Byron Janis perform, Horowitz invites the boy to study with him. The fee: $50 an hour. "I was awed, inspired and, yes, a little frightened," remembers Janis. "I was aware from what people were telling me and from what I had read about Horowitz that there would be difficulties in working with such a great artist." The pedagogy was unusual. Horowitz advised against practicing too much. (He himself dislikes practicing.) Sometimes the maestro would listen while lying on the floor, offering suggestions from a prone position. "The piano...
...courage in Table Money. Owney's is physical, as he displayed in Viet Nam by winning a Congressional Medal of Honor. Dolores proves her valor by overcoming generations of inertia and fatalism. She does it by demonstrating that behind the male swagger there is usually an unsteady little boy in need of a firm maternal hand. When a neighborhood Rambo threatens to shoot at police from his window, Dolores arms herself with a basket of wet wash and gets him to help her hang it: "She held her hand out and Ralphie gave her the blue pajamas. She pinned them...
...merely illustrative and the frenetically decorative. In his sober moods he was rarely off-key. His Adirondack paintings have the astringent completeness of the Michigan woods in early Hemingway. Perhaps no painting has ever conveyed a hunter's anxiety better than Hound and Hunter, with its flustered boy in the dinghy trying to get a rope on a shot stag's antlers before its corpse sinks, lurching to and fro in a cave of forest darkness and disturbed silver ripples...