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...question used to be which Woody Allen you preferred: the later, "mature" one (who made Crimes and Misdemeanors) or the earlier, funny one (Bananas). Now, after the tabloid headlines and a few box-office flops, the issue is starker: Is Woody Allen still a viable filmmaker? In this year's Bullets over Broadway, he retreated to the sort of schematic period piece that friendly critics usually lap up, and they did. Now he has regressed further -- back to his first play, Don't Drink the Water. What's more, he has cast himself in the lead and directed...
...narrative looseness, "L'Avventura" is compositionally air-tight. Emotional distance is made literal on screen. The stark black and white of even starker landscapes and the often contrasting coloring of clothes or hair serve to accentuate the social distance with which Claudia, Sandro and their acquaintances struggle...
...fiscal-1992 budget he submitted last February, Bush boosted spending for basic research 13%, but most federal R. and D. dollars still go into weapons development, which yields few mass-market spin-offs. In the past year, the warnings about that imbalance have grown starker. As the Office of Technology Assessment stated in a blunt report in October, "If there are no major changes in government policies of developed nations, we expect U.S. manufacturing competitiveness to continue to sink, compared with Japan...
...JANOS STARKER (Mercury Living Presence). Accompanied by Antal Dorati and the London Symphony Orchestra, the splendidly patrician Starker restores freshness to three warhorses: Dvorak's Cello Concerto, Bruch's Kol Nidrei and Tchaikovsky's Variations on a Rococo Theme. This is one of several remarkable recordings immaculately transferred from the Mercury Living Presence series (1951-68), which for sound quality remains unsurpassed...
...daily litany of problems seems all the starker now because of the feverish boosterism that characterized Koch's three terms as mayor. The 65- year-old Democrat lived and breathed New York, taking the pulse of the city through his own. "How'm I doin'?" was his constant question as he flitted from fire to shooting to gala to press conference. For much of his 12-year tenure, the answer was "O.K." But rampant corruption within his administration and the widening economic and racial fissures in the city ultimately soured New Yorkers on their tireless but tiresome mayor...