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<text id=89TT0513>
<title>
Feb. 20, 1989: Critics' Choice
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
Feb. 20, 1989 Betrayal:Marine Spy Scandal
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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CRITICS' CHOICE, Page 17
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<p>TELEVISION
</p>
<p> CRISTABEL (PBS, debuting Feb. 19, 9 p.m. on most stations).
Acclaimed TV dramatist Dennis Potter (The Singing Detective)
shifts from fantasy to fact in this four-parter about an
Englishwoman who spent World War II as a citizen of Nazi
Germany.
</p>
<p> GLORY! GLORY! (HBO, debuting Feb. 19 and 20, 9 p.m. EST).
Jim and Tammy could raise the bucks at least. In this two-part
movie, Richard Thomas plays the dullest evangelist on TV, who
recruits a drugged-out rock singer to save his ministry.
</p>
<p> WITHOUT BORDERS (TBS, Feb. 19, 10 p.m. EST). A documentary
on five of the world's great rivers and the people fighting to
save them, produced for environment-minded TV mogul Ted Turner.
</p>
<p>BOOKS
</p>
<p> THE SATANIC VERSES by Salman Rushdie (Viking; $19.95).
Charges of blasphemy against the Prophet Muhammad have put
Rushdie's book into international headlines. But there is no
harm, only relentless artistry, in this encyclopedic fiction
about the explosive, often comic meetings of East and West.
</p>
<p> CAT'S EYE by Margaret Atwood (Doubleday; $18.95). A
middle-age painter returns to show her work in Toronto, where
she grew up, and falls into a quirky, brilliant meditation on
childhood as seen from the middle distance.
</p>
<p> THIS BOY'S LIFE by Tobias Wolff (Atlantic Monthly Press;
$18.95). A vivid memoir of a bizarre upbringing, dwelling not on
hardships but on the promise of awakening every morning in a
vast land where people are prepared to forget the past and
believe anything.
</p>
<p>THEATER
</p>
<p> BLACK AND BLUE. Three great singers, two dozen top dancers,
28 bluesy numbers and a zillion sequins add up to Broadway's
hot new musical revue.
</p>
<p> THE TAFFETAS. Goofy and winsome and ever so tuneful, this
off-Broadway spoof biography of a fictional '50s girl group is
superbly arranged and sung.
</p>
<p>ART
</p>
<p> VICTOR PASMORE, the Phillips Collection, Washington.
Honoring his 80th birthday, a recap of the influential British
painter's journey through realms of naturalism and abstraction.
Through April 2.
</p>
<p> GOYA AND THE SPIRIT OF ENLIGHTENMENT, Museum of Fine Arts,
Boston. This excellent show rescues the Spanish master from the
Romantic shadows of the Goyaesque and presents him as a man
immersed in the liberal currents of his time. Through March 26.
</p>
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