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Mar. 25, 1991: Critics' Voices
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
Mar. 25, 1991 Boris Yeltsin:Russia's Maverick
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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CRITICS' VOICES, Page 10
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<p> ART
</p>
<p> JOHN RUSSELL POPE AND THE BUILDING OF THE NATIONAL GALLERY
OF ART, National Gallery of Art, Washington. The repository of
some of the nation's most cherished pieces of art is
celebrating its 50th anniversary with an exhibit of 75 drawings
and photographs that explore the creation of the West Building
and the career of its architect. Through July 7.
</p>
<p> THE DRAWINGS OF ANTHONY VAN DYCK, Pierpont Morgan Library,
New York City. For the 350th anniversary of the death of this
Baroque master, the museum has amassed 90 drawings, ranging
from Van Dyck's earliest sketches to studies for his glowing
royal portraits. Through April 21.
</p>
<p> MOVIES
</p>
<p> JU DOU. The colors--bright, sensuous, all enveloping--tell the story of a young Chinese woman, her brutal husband and
her timid lover. Fate enshrouds them, as it has Zhang Yimou's
beautiful film: Ju Dou has never played publicly in China, and
the authorities tried unsuccessfully to rescind its Oscar
nomination as Best Foreign Film.
</p>
<p> THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS. The lacerating suspense of Thomas
Harris' novel is missing from this earnest adaptation, but if
you haven't read the book about an FBI trainee tracking one
serial killer with the help of another, you ought to see the
movie. Main attraction: the intellectual tug-of-wills between
Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins.
</p>
<p> THEATER
</p>
<p> THE BIG LOVE. When Errol Flynn died in 1959, he was
traveling with starlet Beverly Aadland, who had been his
mistress since she was 15. This chillingly believable Broadway
play has as its sole character Beverly's mother Florence
(unforgettably played by Tracey Ullman), a ferocious stage mama
who would stop at nothing.
</p>
<p> THE SPEED OF DARKNESS. Playwright Steve Tesich brings
together two former Army buddies and trash-haulage partners in
this haunting Broadway production, one (Stephen Lang) now
scruffy and homeless, the other (Len Cariou) now South Dakota's
man of the year. Ironically, the dropout is at peace; the man
who suppressed his dark secrets to fit in exists on the knife
edge of anger.
</p>
<p> TELEVISION
</p>
<p> AMERICAN PLAYHOUSE (PBS, March 20, 22). The anthology series
opens its 10th season with a double dose of Broadway: Into the
Woods, Stephen Sondheim's musical twist on Grimms' fairy tales,
and The Grapes of Wrath, the Steppenwolf Theater's adaptation
of Steinbeck's Depression novel.
</p>
<p> THE MAHABHARATA (PBS, March 25, 26, 27, 9 p.m. on most
stations). Another stage event, Peter Brook's marathon version
of the Hindu sacred epic, comes to TV in three two-hour
segments.
</p>
<p> THE ACADEMY AWARDS (ABC, March 25, 9 p.m. EST). Hollywood's
annual fete is still king of all the awards shows. And Kevin
Costner is grooming himself for this year's crown.
</p>
<p> MUSIC
</p>
<p> GRAHAM PARKER: STRUCK BY LIGHTNING (RCA). Don't get in this
man's way: "She's a living example," he sings, "of God's bad
taste." And that's a love song; well, sort of. It's typical of
the venom-tipped but still lyrical reflections stashed
throughout the 15 tunes on this high-velocity workout by one
of the orneriest but most beguiling rockers in the
neighborhood.
</p>
<p> STRAUSS: DER ROSENKAV ALIER (London). In this historic 1954
performance of an endlessly ravishing opera, a master conductor
(Erich Kleiber), superb singers (Maria Reining, Sena Jurinac
and Hilde Gueden) and an outstanding orchestra (the Vienna
Philharmonic) blend color, vitality and balance with
intelligence and resonant beauty.
</p>
<p> BOB WILBER/KENNY DAVERN: SUMMIT REUNION (Chiaroscuro).
Rarely has a musical marriage been so harmonious. Wilber and
Davern first teamed up back in the '70s in a highly touted jazz
sextet called Soprano Summit. That group is no more, alas, but
this studio rematch, featuring Wilber on soprano sax and Davern
on clarinet, scales a new peak.
</p>
<p> ETCETERA
</p>
<p> AN IMPERIAL FASCINATION: PORCELAIN. More than 500 pieces of
Imperial porcelain are on display--the largest number ever
shown outside the Soviet Union. At New York City's A La Vieille
Russie, through April 20.
</p>
<p> BLUE PLANET. Astronaut's-eye views of earth, filmed during
five space-shuttle missions. From the wind-sculpted dunes of
the Namib Desert to smogbound Los Angeles, the images
underscore the urgency of saving the environment. Showing at
more than two dozen science museums in the U.S. and Canada
through the summer.
</p>
<p> BOOKS
</p>
<p> THE PROMISED LAND by Nicholas Lemann (Knopf; $24.95). The
second great migration that shaped the U.S.: the movement of
millions of blacks from the rural South to the cities of the
North.
</p>
<p> NEW OXFORD ANNOTATED BIBLE edited by Bruce Metzger and
Roland Murphy (Oxford; $37.95). Last year's gender-blended New
Revised Standard Version with notes and articles making
judicious use of higher criticism.
</p>
<p> MOZART MAVEN
</p>
<p> One of the great pleasures of this year's Mozart
bicentennial will be Mitsuko Uchida's performances of the
composer's 18 piano sonatas in a series of five recitals at New
York City's Alice Tully Hall between now and April 21. She will
also perform some of the sonatas in other cities, including
Philadelphia, Toronto, Washington and Pittsburgh. Uchida, 42,
plays her specialty with a remarkable combination of energy and
tenderness, a considerable rhythmic freedom and a lovely tone.
This spring Philips Classics is rereleasing her recordings of
these sonatas, along with a splendid new recording of Mozart's
piano concerti Nos. 15 and 16, accompanied by the English
Chamber Orchestra and conducted by Jeffrey Tate. Born in Japan,
trained in Vienna and now residing in London, Uchida has a
repertoire that ranges from Chopin to Ravel, not to mention
Bartok and Carter, but she calls Mozart's work a "kind of world
in itself...so complete that you can forget about the rest.
Then you come out, and you are blinded."
</p>
<p>By TIME'S REVIEWERS/Compiled by Andrea Sachs.
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