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...this old-fashioned show, McAnuff and his team have made splendid use of computer-graphic wizardry: buildings rise and fall on screens in the background, rockets climb, clouds swim past--there is even an erupting volcano. It must be spewing some kind of happy dust in the theater, rendering all but irrelevant the fact that many of the jokes still fall flat and that the story's resolution, even by fairy-tale standards, comes too easily. Will today's theatergoers let such things bother them? This appealing production urges us all--whether we are pursuing business success or just...
This is not to say that the book should have had a graphic depiction of the assault on Reginald Denny (or Rodney King). On the contrary. I challenge the premise that we must deal with inflammatory events in books for little children. But if we are going to anyway, we should at least treat them with moral honesty. The L.A. riots were not some natural disaster...
...most notorious of these, the one that in 1980 helped launch the whole trend toward social realism for kids, is Hiroshima No Pika, a shockingly graphic picture book about the dropping of the atom bomb and the horrible deaths that ensued. The book is not coy about who caused the suffering...
...Came in from the Cold revolutionized espionage fiction-and he has done so with none of the typical thriller trappings. Evil geniuses do not hold the world hostage in his books; violence takes place off-page; and if there is sex, it is wistful rather than graphic, tinged with the foreknowledge that pleasure seldom lasts...
Through June 25. "The Renaissance Print: France and Italy." This exhibition presents a provocative dialogue between French and Italian graphic works from the 16th century...