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4. Family by Ian Frazier (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). The author, first visible as a New Yorker humorist, then as an observer in Great Plains, an elegiac portrait of the American heartland, turns reflective and inward in this long, moody rummage in time's attic. He began to gather material about...
She (Amy Irving) is crippled with obsession over Hitler's mistreatment of Jews. He (Ron Rifkin) is a raging, gelded bull. And Arthur Miller, in a scalding play that brought him back to Broadway 50 years after his debut, is still pursuing his theme: that connecting with other people is...
It's got sex, power and -- as an extra added attraction -- that other American obsession, dieting. It's the reverse-discrimination suit filed by eight men from Boston who found the Jenny Craig weight-loss organization too full of, well, female chauvinist pigs. The girl talk in the office, says...
The Bruch is also unexceptional, besides Midori's unassailable technique. One cannot help but wonder whether her obsession with note-perfection might be getting in the way of musical success. To reiterate yet again, I am reliably impressed with her facility, but I have never been convinced by her recordings...
D.H. Lawrence-The Story of a Marriage demonstrates its author's adeptness at conveying both one man's eccentricities and the collective neuroses of a seemingly distant time and place. The book also serves as a reminder of our own generation's unhealthily narrow-minded obsession with sexual identity. Amidst...