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Potter was born, the same year as Marlow, into a poor family in the Forest of Dean, those sprawling West Country woods where young Philip spots his mother copulating. Potter moved to London, as his character does, was graduated with honors from Oxford, ran unsuccessfully for Parliament in 1964, then began writing teleplays. For half his life he has suffered from the same disease as Marlow, and must stay occasionally in the sort of hospital he lances so vigorously in the series. Potter insists that Detective is not autobiographical, "except for the illness, with which I'm overly, sickeningly familiar...
...discovered tale by Wilhelm Grimm, younger of the Grimm brothers, is unprecedented. The work of collaborators separated by more than 150 years is irresistible. All three converge in Dear Mili (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $16.95), a long-lost Grimm tale in which a mother sends her child off to the forest as war approaches. Mili stumbles upon a safe house where she is sheltered by St. Joseph and her guardian angel. After three days the child is guided home, but in that time 30 years have passed. Mili is unchanged; her mother has dramatically aged. The conclusion is freighted with mystery...
Stockholm is sunless for 17 hours a day in December, and London gets 15 days of rain. Greek villages hibernate for the winter, Loire valley inns close their shutters, and, but for the evergreens and skiers, the Black Forest is bare. Surely these are reasons enough for the traveler to stay away...
...discreet presence, strung along the shores of the Mediterranean, of an elegiac classical past. The figures in Matisse's fauve landscapes at St.-Tropez -- amply represented in this show -- are Arcadians with spots. The pale recumbent nude among the columnar tree trunks in his Nymph in the Forest, 1935-42 or '43, harks directly back to Titian. The flute player in Henri Rousseau's The Happy Quartet, 1902, whose music is joined by the howling of a giant white poodle, is a reprise of innumerable earlier pastorals. Gauguin was partly a reprise of Watteau, each in his own way imagining...
...meet its obligations, Manville must squeeze every possible dollar out of its sales of fiber-glass insulation, forest products and industrial goods. During its bankruptcy, Manville slashed costs and reduced its 26,000-worker payroll by 8,000 employees. The firm shut down its asbestos mine, trimmed money-losing subsidiaries, and sold its headquarters building near Denver...