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May 01, 1989: Critics' Choice
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
May 01, 1989 Abortion
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
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CRITICS' CHOICE, Page 15
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<p>MUSIC
</p>
<p> SAM KINISON: HAVE YOU SEEN ME LATELY? (Warner Bros.).
Abusive, scurrilous and hilarious: post-punk comedy meets
primal-scream therapy. Offensive? You betcha. But there are
wonderful bits about sexism and heartbreak, as well as the best
riffs on organized religion since Lenny Bruce.
</p>
<p> ROSANNE CASH: HITS 1979-1989 (Columbia). She's got a
half-past-4-in-the-morning voice and a knowing way with a song
that can make any listener wish the night would go on forever.
</p>
<p> ANTONIN DVORAK: AMERICAN SUITE, SYMPHONY NO. 9 (Virgin
Classics). Libor Pesek conducts the Royal Liverpool
Philharmonic Orchestra in exuberant renditions of these powerful
works, whose brooding, Slavic soul belies their New World theme.
</p>
<p>ART
</p>
<p> THOMAS HART BENTON: AN AMERICAN ORIGINAL, Nelson-Atkins
Museum of Art, Kansas City, Mo. He said he wished his work could
be exhibited in saloons, but the colorful, cantankerous Benton
(1889-1975) is being honored in his centennial year not only
with a biography and a PBS special but also with this
full-dress retrospective in his native state. Featured: the
stylized murals of American history and daily life for which he
was best known. Through June 18.
</p>
<p> WHISTLER AND HIS CIRCLE, Minnesota Museum of Art, St. Paul.
Etchings, lithographs and paintings representing Whistler's
high achievements in those media as well as his influence on
other late-19th century artists, chiefly such Americans as
Joseph Pennell, Charles Keene and John Marin. Through June 25.
</p>
<p> NELL BLAINE: RECENT OILS AND WORKS ON PAPER, Fischbach
Gallery, New York City. Forty-eight works by a premier U.S.
artist whose spontaneous brushstrokes and brilliant colors
enrobe nature in a tender intimacy. Through April 26.
</p>
<p>TELEVISON
</p>
<p> THE FORGOTTEN (USA, April 26, 9 p.m.). Six Viet Nam POWs,
released 17 years after the war's end, discover that sinister
Government forces were behind their capture. Steve Railsback,
Stacy Keach and Keith Carradine co-star in this thriller, the
USA cable network's first venture into made-for-TV moviedom.
</p>
<p> THE KOPPEL REPORT: D.C. -- DIVIDED CITY (ABC, April 27, 10
p.m. EDT). The much-publicized plague of drug-related violence
in the nation's capital is examined by Ted Koppel, first in a
prime-time special, then in a live discussion that will take
over the Nightline time period.
</p>
<p> GUTS AND GLORY: THE RISE AND FALL OF OLIVER NORTH (CBS,
April 30, May 2, 9 p.m. EDT). Following his real-life trial,
the embattled lieutenant colonel (David Keith) gets his day in
TV court, courtesy of a two-part docudrama.
</p>
<p>MOVIES
</p>
<p> HEATHERS. There's a disturbing mortality rate among
Westerburg High's snooty elite. A rash of suicides? Or is
someone killing the prom queens of Ohio? Daniel Waters' witty
script touches two stark teen issues: the need to be accepted
and the urge to end it all.
</p>
<p> 84 CHARLIE MOPIC. In the jungles of Viet Nam, a lost patrol
finds enemies on both sides of combat. But the main character
of Patrick Duncan's war movie is a documentary-film camera.
Through its unblinking eye, a familiar horror story gains raw
immediacy.
</p>
<p>BOOKS
</p>
<p> CITIZENS: A CHRONICLE OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION by Simon
Schama (Knopf; $29.95). Exactly 200 years after the bloody
facts, a Harvard historian offers a fascinating, often
surprising account of what went right -- and wrong -- during one
of the world's most celebrated social convulsions.
</p>
<p> A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY by John Irving (Morrow; $19.95). In
this inventive, indignant novel, a boisterous cast and a
spirited story line propel a sawed-off Christly caricature
through two decades of U.S. foreign-policy debacles.
</p>
<p>THEATER
</p>
<p> AMULETS AGAINST THE DRAGON FORCES. Paul Zindel's
off-Broadway play about a self-destructive alcoholic and a
neurotic but winsome adolescent is superbly acted, and its
melodramatic excess sings like pure truth.
</p>
<p> THE MEMBER OF THE WEDDING. Esther Rolle (Good Times) and
Amelia Campbell glow as nanny and budding adolescent in this
moving off-Broadway revival of Carson McCullers' coming-of-age
story of the pre-civil rights South.
</p>
<p> PEER GYNT. Hartford Stage Company captures both the epic
sweep and the proto-Freudian core of Ibsen's poem of
self-discovery in a sequential pair of full-length productions.
</p>
<p> GHETTO. Joshua Sobol's Nazi-era tragicomedy, seen across
the U.S. in an Israeli production, makes its English-language
debut on Broadway with the same vibrant staging.
</p>
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