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...each case, the reader finds himself cunningly misled. Sprechman's theme, hinted rather than hammered at, is that life is a moral conundrum in which people are forced to make choices long before they can grasp the consequences. Despite some paranormal elements, Caribe does not read like a spiritual tract or a cheap shocker: the supernatural portions are elegant, almost metaphysical asides. Sprechman, 66, has worked in the movie industry for more than 25 years, as financial vice president of Joseph E. Levine's Embassy Pictures and, currently, chief financial officer of Kaleidoscope Films Inc., a leading Hollywood producer...
...farm foreclosures have increased, many farmers have come to view bankers as the enemy. In 1983 a Minnesota farmer and his son lured a bank president and a loan officer to their foreclosed ten-acre tract, ambushed and killed them. Last year a Nebraska farmer was killed in a shootout after firing at state troopers with a rifle. The conflict began earlier in the day when sheriff's deputies tried to serve him legal papers concerning $300,000 in overdue loans. This fall in Iowa two occasions were recorded in which farmers, carrying loaded guns in their trucks, thought about...
This is the imaginary tract that Richard Avedon has now populated. Over a five-year period, at the behest of the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth, Avedon took hundreds of portraits throughout the West. Using an eight-by-ten view camera on a tripod, he photographed people at rodeos in Montana, oil fields in Oklahoma and a "rattlesnake roundup" in Texas. He picked more than 100 of those shots for a traveling exhibition titled "In the American West," which began at the Amon Carter earlier this year and has now opened at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington. A condensed...
Most of all, thanks for telling us that while cranberry juice may or may not prevent urinary tract infections, "there is no harm in drinking cranberry juice...
...that Susan whines out against the desperation. It's not tract, but satire, asking that most forbidden of questions: Can anything come between the suburban housewife and her Calvins? Will the quiet wife of a New Jersey hot tub mogul seek excitement in a Susan universe so desperate that it allows for wet armpits? To paraphrase Aristotle, all the pipes in the world can't buy excitement...