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...Fighting Jew." For much of Jewish history, through the long centuries of the Diaspora, that phrase was an oxymoron, a kind of contradiction in terms. Israel was the creation of fighting Jews, of course, but at least until the Six-Day War of 1967, Israel was the heroic and democratic underdog struggling for its very existence in the vast and hostile Arab wilderness. For a couple of thousand years, Jewish morality presupposed a kind of victim's righteousness, the special blamelessness of those without great collective power. Now Israel ranks fourth among the military powers of the world...
...score full of tunes to scream on your way out of the theater. On cable this sprawling Guignol fits with surprising snugness, and Angela Lansbury still schemes and postures through the role of Sweeney's accomplice like a deranged Raggedy Ann. As Sweeney, George Hearn gives a darkly heroic performance that by rights should win him an Emmy nomination next year. Sondheim advised Director Terry Hughes on this production, triggering speculation that some of his other unfilmed musicals might finally be preserved. Company, Follies, Anyone Can Whistle-there are works to be done. Cable can do them...
...While heroic plans for imprisonment have shriveled, the Inmate Nation is larger than ever before. The public wants to "get tough" with criminals, and legislators, prosecutors and judges are obeying that diffuse mandate by sending more people away for longer stretches. Prisons have nearly doubled their population since 1970. Last year's 12.1% increase was the fastest in this century. Now the Inmate Nation is growing by more than 170 a day, and during the next few weeks will probably edge over 400,000, not quite half black, about 4% women. At the current rate of growth the number...
...enigmatic and unsatisfying conclusion? "But I didn't want, to write a book about the great rebels, who are really heroic, but about some more ordinary being," Sennett says with a smile, as he pours white wine for a visitor to his Manhattan home. "Grau thinks he has told the truth, finally, and taken a risk. But he's so warped by the system that what appears to him a risk is in fact a defense of the system. And yet he has dignity, because under those conditions of self-deception, he has done what he thinks...
...nearly completed-on schedule and within budget. Yet the storm of controversy the building has raised is likely to rage long after its official dedication on Oct. 2. The issue is style. With this one brazen gesture, the architect, Michael Graves, 48, attempts to supplant modern architecture's heroic industrialism with postmodern architecture's heroic . . . what? Perhaps it might be called Pop surrealism that uses classic design elements the way Walt Disney cartoons used the physiognomy of a rodent to create Mickey Mouse. For all its playfulness, however, the Portland Building is dangerous. Modern architecture is ripe...