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During the past two weeks, Chrysler Chairman Lee Iacocca conceived and put together the latest rescue plan with the precision of a Swiss clockmaker piecing together a masterwork. Iacocca boldly asked every one of Chrysler's associates for another substantial financial concession to keep the company alive. The elements of the newest rescue package...
WALT WHITMAN was an American genius. He brought originality to an imitative literature, cutting and hewing poems out of the city streets and country ponds of a vast America. "The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem," he said in the 1855 preface to his masterwork, Leaves of Grass. Never before had an American writer captured this relationship between the word and the state, the poem and the nation. Emerson wrote Whitman a few weeks after the publication of Leaves of Grass, saying he found it "the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed...
...characters as inarticulate (and, through the wonders of Dolby Stereo, often as unintelligible) as those of The Deer Hunter, but without the Viet Nam film's claim of political significance. With its repetitions and ellipses, Heaven's Gate resembles random sequences from some lost eight-hour masterwork. As of this week, though, it is something sadder: a four-hour fiasco...
...Evenings, Mikhalkov tells the story of a middle-aged man and woman trying to pick up the threads of a romance they were forced to sever during World War II. And in his latest film, Oblomov, he tackles the elusive, lethargic hero of Ivan Goncharov's 19th century masterwork...
...sharply in his movies on the rights of individuals that Czechoslovak film authorities once suspended his license to work. He fled to the U.S. "to be a free citizen" when Soviet tanks crushed the brief "Prague spring" liberalization in 1968; that was three years after he had produced his masterwork, The Shop on Main Street, a haunting drama about an elderly Jewish woman who is betrayed to the Nazis by a cowardly collaborator...