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Overall, Showtime's trio of adaptations packs some emotional punch, but there is a slick professional sameness to the stories that suggests production by committee. Meanwhile, HBO's Hills Like White Elephants, a haunting brief encounter frozen in time by good acting and writing, shows how it can and ought...
Not, let me insist and insist again, by Vague Generalities. We abhor V.G.'s, we skim right past them, we start wondering what kind of C to give from the first V.G. we encounter; and as they pile up, we decide C: (Harvard being Harvard, one does not give D...
Since his election in 1986, Waldheim has wooed only one other Western head of state to Austria, Cypriot President George Vassiliou, who visited Vienna in early July. With two years left in his term and with the boycott against him broken, Waldheim might yet have other callers. But after his...
Now the cold war is over, and a track meet is once again simply a track meet. While athletes and their coaches are as happy as anyone else about peace, the disappearance of the symbolic moral struggle has taken away a certain dramatic appeal -- and has led to pragmatic worry...
The humble origins of this "rags to purple" churchman should help him in reaching out to the alienated masses at a time when only 15% of English youngsters go to Sunday school, contrast to 50% in the 1950s, and when church attendance runs to a pitiful 2.4% of the populace...