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July 17, 1989: Critics' Choice
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
July 17, 1989 Death By Gun
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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CRITICS' CHOICE, Page 12
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<p>MUSIC
</p>
<p> INDIGO GIRLS: INDIGO GIRLS (Epic). Love's Recovery and Land
of Canaan are the winners here, in an album full of saline
nouveau folk songs sung by two gifted writer-performers. The
Indigos have their roots in the up-front message music of the
early '60s and the more abstruse lyrical digressions of the
Georgia rock band REM; it's an intriguing combination and one
that merits nurturing.
</p>
<p> TIN MACHINE: TIN MACHINE (EMI). It's David Bowie, lying low
with a new band that he helped create and whose rough edges he
hones to a good cutting edge. Lots of fever-blister guitar work
and apocalyptic Bowie lyrics. Crack City ought to be a sci-fi
hallucination, but Bowie knows better: he makes it into an
everyday nightmare.
</p>
<p>ART
</p>
<p> HELEN FRANKENTHALER: A PAINTINGS RETROSPECTIVE, Museum of
Modern Art, New York City. In the 1950s, Frankenthaler's
lyrical washes of color had a decisive influence on abstract
expressionism; today she ranks as America's best-known living
woman artist. These 40 canvases from four decades show why.
Through Aug. 20.
</p>
<p> ON THE ART OF FIXING A SHADOW: 150 YEARS OF PHOTOGRAPHY,
National Gallery, Washington. The history of photography as
art, assembled from public and private collections around the
world. Over 400 original pictures representing 200
photographers. Among them: Louis Daguerre, Alfred Stieglitz,
Henri Cartier-Bresson, Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange. Through
July 30.
</p>
<p> AGAINST NATURE: JAPANESE ART IN THE EIGHTIES, San Francisco
Museum of Modern Art. Architect Arata Isozaki and fashion
designer Issey Miyake are famous abroad, but contemporary visual
art from Japan is still little known in the West. The first
major U.S. museum show from Japan in more than 20 years brings
American audiences up-to-date with a survey of new work from the
cultural center of East Asia. Through Aug. 6.
</p>
<p>BOOKS
</p>
<p> POLAR STAR by Martin Cruz Smith (Random House; $19.95). In
a sequel to his best-selling detective novel Gorky Park, Smith
sets Moscow investigator Arkady Renko off on another bizarre
case. The setting this time is a fishing boat on the Bering Sea;
one dead body leads to others along an arc of increasing menace
and violence.
</p>
<p> FROM BEIRUT TO JERUSALEM by Thomas L. Friedman (Farrar
Straus Giroux; $22.95). Friedman won two Pulitzer Prizes during
the 1980s while covering the Middle East for the New York Times.
Now based in Washington, he looks back on the harsh realities
of a region drenched in myths and bloodshed.
</p>
<p>THEATER
</p>
<p> ASPECTS OF LOVE. London's West End is illuminated by Andrew
Lloyd Webber's lyrical meditation on romance. Five actors led
by the able Michael Ball discover that love is a process of
teaching and almost of parenting. Lloyd Webber's score, though
repetitive, is gorgeous.
</p>
<p> UBU. Played on a tiled set that suggests an immense urinal,
this revised version of Alfred Jarry's absurdist classic Ubu
Roi -- about a murderous nincompoop who seizes the crown of
Poland -- remains as hilarious off-Broadway (and only a little
less outrageous) than when outraged Parisian theatergoers rioted
in 1896.
</p>
<p>TELEVISION
</p>
<p> THE MOON ABOVE, THE EARTH BELOW (CBS, July 13, 9 p.m. EDT).
For the 20th anniversary of Neil Armstrong's one small step, Dan
Rather and Charles Kuralt are on hand to wax nostalgic.
</p>
<p> COPS (Fox, July 15, 8 p.m. EDT). Glasnost reached another
milestone last spring, when the producers of this
documentary-style series about real cops were allowed to follow
a group of Soviet policemen. Two weeks of shooting resulted in
this special one-hour episode.
</p>
<p> P.O.V. (PBS, debuting July 18, 10 p.m. on most stations).
This summer series -- a collection of independent documentaries,
all expressing their makers' "point of view" -- launches its
second season with Who Killed Vincent Chin?, an Oscar-nominated
film about the 1982 slaying of a young Chinese-American
engineer.
</p>
<p>MOVIES
</p>
<p> WHEN HARRY MET SALLY . . . it was loathe at first sight.
But he (Billy Crystal) learned to accept her (Meg Ryan) as a
friend, with almost no romantic strings attached. The "almost"
makes for a witty sexual tension in Rob Reiner's comic valentine
to love, friendship, Manhattan and Woody Allen.
</p>
<p> GREAT BALLS OF FIRE. This bio-pic stamps demon rocker Jerry
Lee Lewis as a feral innocent in a time warp, instead of
cottoning to the sexual and class danger he held for Middle
America. But Dennis Quaid inhabits Jerry Lee with a nicely
calculating recklessness, and Winona Ryder is hypnotically
enigmatic as the singer's nymphet bride.
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