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Buchloh is both historian and critic, and his seminal 1981 essay, “Figures of Authority, Ciphers of Regression,” offers both incisive historical analysis and rejects the neo-conservative art trends of the late 1970s, according to Bois...
...envy of the Kremlin during the cold war. Buchanan and friends are in denial, delusional or willfully deceptive. Many people learned a lesson from Watergate and the failed cover-up. Others, apparently, are still covering up. Mitchell J. Fine El Dorado Hills, California, U.S. A Pressing Need In his essay "Dark Secrets in the Parking Garage" [June 13], Richard Schickel wondered whether we could use more investigative reporters like Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein in Washington now. There is no question about it. We need others like them to uncover the lies and distortions that are issued each...
...Devotion Michael Elliott's essay "hopelessly Devoted" [June 6], on being an obsessive fan of Liverpool Football Club, reminded me of how it felt to be blindly devoted to a boy band. I had the group's posters hung all over the walls of my room when I was little and played their tapes over and over again. I never understood what they were singing about (the pain of being unable to get the love of a girl or how much it hurt to lose her), and the boy band disappeared before I could figure...
...essay the role of the brooding, mordantly comic, half-mad prince is to brave comparison with Garrick and Booth, Burton and Olivier. Kline may not yet rank among that pantheon, but he has vaulted over his contemporaries with this production. His performance ripens and changes night by night. It still seems unfinished in some scenes, too cautious in others, and is on the whole a bit quiet and constrained to energize a melodrama nearly four hours long. But he speaks the text with clarity and command, and he makes Hamlet believable as a whirlpool of contradictions: an inconstant avenger...
...gold loops in the chain will be some 1,000 celebrities, including Kenny Rogers, Bill Cosby, Lily Tomlin and Pete Rose, the four co-chairmen. Organizers stress, however, that "this is a people's event." A North Dakota radio station is sponsoring an essay contest that will reward winners with transportation down to the line. A chili cook-off is planned along the route in Texas. Members of the feuding Navajo and Hopi Indian tribes have got together to endorse the event. Along a ten-mile stretch in New Mexico, thousands of hot-air balloons will ascend simultaneously. The chain...