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...Last Ship is not just a gender-war memoir but an informative travelogue of the destroyer's globe-girdling last voyage, a catalog of naval weaponry and fittings, and a lengthy speculation on the future of man- and womankind. "God is going to give us a second chance?" the Captain wonders as he and his shipmates continue the human habit of baffling and betraying one another. Good question. A scientist might quibble with Brinkley's assumption that sailors would be the likeliest survivors of the next war. But since the species, male and female alike, crawled...
Kelly keeps a lot of them around now, too. About 57,000 in her two stores. Among the most valuable are a copy of Margaret Fuller's essays on American literature owned and annotated by Walt Whitman, a signed first edition book by Jack Kerouac, and a catalog of Henry Miller's works written in his own hand...
...organized with the Louvre, appeared at the Grand Palais in Paris last fall with a slightly different roster of works.) Welcome though it is, this display of 90 paintings and 131 drawings might best be summed up as authoritative rather than definitive. In an introduction to the sumptuous, scholarly catalog, Pierre Rosenberg, the Louvre's chief curator of paintings, acknowledges that several treasures in London's Wallace Collection were unavailable, as were the four famous panels called The Progress of Love, 1771, which the artist created for Madame du Barry. Fortunately for residents of and visitors to New York...
What is missing from Television is a critical point of view or guiding theme -- or, indeed, anything that would lift the series above a mere catalog of Great Moments from TV's Past. The uninspired narration does little more than scoot us from one clip to the next ("Dragnet was the first hit police show. It has been followed by a succession of cop shows."), with little insight into how the medium got from there to here. The series focuses, wisely, on programming rather than the business of TV; still, somewhere amid the clips of Sid Caesar and Jackie Gleason...
Perhaps it was natural that Japanese artists should return the compliment; anyhow it was inevitable, once the traditional isolation of Japan was broken by the Emperor Meiji's decree, in 1868, that "knowledge shall be sought throughout the world." As J. Thomas Rimer points out in a fascinating catalog essay to this show, the teaching of Western art in Meiji Tokyo began in 1876 mainly as a "scientific" discipline. But before long the bizarre techniques of the mysterious Occident developed their own momentum for Japanese artists, and particularly the Western way of depicting forms by smearing a kind of sticky...