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...Wise is serious about the work and, the more you think about it, reasonable. His ideas, at any rate, may be evaluated by reading his new book on animal rights, Rattling the Cage (Perseus Books; $25). Jane Goodall, in a foreword, declares it to be "the animals' Magna Carta." It is by turns eloquent, funny and pedantically legalistic--dense with philosophical and legal history, and with the sometimes bizarre case law of humans and animals. Wise explores the legal basis for granting certain common-law protections and rights to certain nonhuman animals--only a few, really, notably the remarkably intelligent...
...foreword to the published script of The Rainmaker, playwright N. Richard Nash advises, "It must never be forgotten that it is a romance, never for an instant by the director, the actors, the scenic designer or the least-sung usher in the Forrest Theatre in Philadelphia." I can't vouch for the ushers at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre in New York City, who are no less surly than usual, but mostly this Broadway revival gets into the right spirit. The set, a swath of brown prairie dominated by an expanse of blue sky, seems ready at any moment to disgorge...
...Foreword: Everyone reading this should stop. Go buy a CD called The Modern Lovers. It'll be about $8 with tax; it's always in the bargain bin over at Newbury Comics. If you care in the least about rock and roll, you should own this album...
...foreword to the catalog claims that it is "possible to admire Edward Burne-Jones as the greatest British artist of the 19th century, after Turner and perhaps John Constable." One may demur at this, but the show is bound to be a smash hit with the American public, not just because it is full of the yearning sentimentality that has flooded into real life today--for there is a connection between Burne-Jones' semisacrificial English virgins, each one a Flower Beneath the Foot, and the emetically mawkish victim-cult of the late Princess Diana--but because its artfulness evokes intense...
...family has already succumbed. Covey offers family testimonials, many from the Covey kids themselves, and it turns out--brace yourself--that old pop is pretty terrific. "His idealism," writes his wife in an effusive foreword, "inspires me, the people he teaches and our children; it makes us want to achieve and lift ourselves and others." Not since The Waltons has America seen a family so well adjusted. "We wanted our children to work in school and get as much education as possible," Covey writes. "We focused primarily on learning, not grades, and we hardly ever had to encourage the children...