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Daisy Eagan plays Mary Lennox, an orphan whose unloving parents died in a cholera epidemic in India. John Babcock, 14, plays her cousin Colin, a sickly boy kept locked away from chill winds and excitement in a room where he frets that he will be transmuted into a hunchback like his father. Mandy Patinkin plays the father, his deformity barely noticeable but his behavior conspicuously odd: he visits his son only when the boy is asleep, a quirk that never makes psychological sense. In the woods -- including the walled enclave of the title, cultivated by Colin's late mother...
...Comfort of Strangers also features an unmarried couple, Colin and Mary (Rupert Everett and Natasha Richardson), resident at a hostelry outside their native land and facing up to yet another common middle-class problem. Their setting is Venice; their issue is the joylessness of sex. But the mood, well established by Paul Schrader's direction and Harold Pinter's elliptical screenplay, is one of languid menace. It is personified by Christopher Walken, excellent as Robert, whose psychopathic weirdness simultaneously attracts and repels the couple. And mysteriously energizes them. In his sexuality there is political metaphor. He is an undeclared fascist...
Cover: Photograph by Colin Boyle -- Select/SABA
Alteratively, Harvard could invite Colin Powell, chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Powell has just led the nation to an astounding military victory, and he is also one of the most promiment Black figures in America. Surely he has interesting things...
...many listeners, it sounded like a man praising his boss's magnanimity, but Bush decided he could not afford the impression that he had "wimped out," as an aide put it. His advisers put out word that the general had raised no objection when Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Colin Powell phoned Schwarzkopf on Feb. 27 to tell him the President was about to order hostilities stopped...