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- Feb. 20, 1989: Critics' Choice
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Feb. 20, 1989 Betrayal:Marine Spy Scandal
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- 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.
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