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...city, but "the fallen Queen of the Seas." The symbolism accompanying the dense, involuted prose is no less affected. But Death in Venice works, as a tale, a moral instruction and as art. Of all authors, Mann was the least ingenuous. He deliberately chose the Romantic mode to bid adieu to the romantic mood. Through the spacious andante of Death in Venice, one can hear the contrapuntal knell of the 19th century with all its values, poses and styles...
...appropriate to this mode of anonymity to state that no current photograph is, or voluntarily can be made available...
...their closest, England and France are a scant 18 miles apart. But the emotional gap is virtually infinite. Take, for example, the reliable litmus of crime. As two new films demonstrate, the accounts of evildoer and pursuant vary enormously with the turf. The favored French mode is the grittily realistic roman policier, in which the detective, like Simenon's Inspector Maigret, is presumed human, hence flawed. In England both criminal and captor implicitly play the gentlemanly hare-and-hounds game-a legacy of what W.H. Auden called the "guilty vicarage" tradition...
...medical students, supports the Democratic bill, and many younger physicians have also given the measure their support. So has Dr. Count Gibson of Stanford University School of Medicine, who believes that the bill reflects a new philosophy of social service. "Medicine is moving from the entrepreneurial mode to the community institution," Gibson says. "You can compare it with education. In 1789, this was a private enterprise, but now nobody questions the responsibility of communities to provide public education. Now we're beginning to see health care as a right...
...sculpture before, though it was very much a feature of advanced New York painting in the early '60s-the striped patterns of early Stella, the symmetrical chevrons of Noland. So it seemed that Judd had contrived to declare in sculpture one of the basic attitudes of that mode of painting: its flatly declarative, unmodified, take-it-or-leave-it quality...