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...whores; it took Manet, in the Olympia, to paint a whore as her own person, staring back at the voyeurs, restricting the offer to a transaction. Here, as in paintings of women who were not models (like Berthe Morisot, whose shadowed and inward-turning beau ty Manet could portray as the index of thought), one sees him inventing the image of the "modern" woman. It was there to be seen; but that is true of any prophecy...
...whiff of martyrdom has begun to rise from the lower levels of the White House. Faith Ryan Whittlesey, who is something called Reagan's new assistant for public liaison, says she is "appalled" by television news and thinks "the media have tried to portray what we think are the bad guys, the Communists, as Robin Hoods." Her office predicts that Reagan will be proved as correct as Churchill was in the 1930s, and his critics as discredited as Neville Chamberlain. To make such an analogy valid, the country's survival would have to be equally at risk...
...year-old baseball legend who is spurred on to win a pennant by the faith of an eleven-year-old fan, played by Justin Henry, 12 (Kramer vs. Kramer). Scheider, who broke his nose during an early "career" as a boxer, says that he has always wanted to portray a baseball player but never before had the chance. "As a kid, I played sand-lot softball," he recalls. "Now here I am acting out a fantasy I've had since I was dreaming of ways to get out of New Jersey." Redford, meanwhile, was returning to the screen...
Under the clever direction of Jon Matthews Magaril, the cast captivates both adults and children as they portray the myriad of Wonderland characters, including Tweedles Dee and Dum, the Red Queen, the Mad Hatter and The Door Mouse, and the devilish Cheshire Cat Led by the ebullient Amy Brenneman as Alice, the cast of seven entertains the audience with lively caricatures of the fairy-tale-like creatures...
...interpreting the escapades of Bill and Mary, reporters mistakenly portray the Harvard Business School as the root of all management evil. H.B.S. is an educational, not a correctional institution. The tactics used by Agee in the Bendix-Martin Marietta acquisition debacle bear little resemblance to what we are taught at Harvard. If some of the school's better-known graduates, like Cunningham and Agee, have acquired a reputation for backstabbing, they possessed the trait long before their arrival at Harvard...