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<text id=89TT2531>
<title>
Sep. 25, 1989: Critics' Voices
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
Sep. 25, 1989 Boardwalk Of Broken Dreams
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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CRITICS' VOICES, Page 1
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<p>MUSIC
</p>
<p> HECTOR BERLIOZ: SYMPHONIE FANTASTIQUE (Angel/EMI). Lean,
brisk and idiomatic: Roger Norrington leads the London Classical
Players in Berlioz's virtuoso ear grabber.
</p>
<p> CLINT BLACK: KILLIN' TIME (RCA). Real nice, unassuming,
go-to-meeting country music by a new Nashville hotshot. Black
sounds like Randy Travis with a few more years of book learning
and a cozy way with a melody.
</p>
<p> BOB DYLAN: OH MERCY (Columbia). He started the decade with
a great album (1981's Shot of Love), and closes it with another.
The record is structured like an intimate revival meeting
between Dylan and listener: there are messages of devotion and
political sermons; parables of the spirit and love songs; and,
in Shooting Star, a luminous benediction. Dylan continues to
make heavy demands -- these ten songs are the most intensely
introspective work anyone has done in rock this year -- but asks
only what he brings from himself: some reckless imagination, a
sense of playful mystery and a full measure of passion.
</p>
<p>BOOKS
</p>
<p> JERUSALEM: CITY OF MIRRORS by Amos Elon (Little, Brown;
$19.95). "Where there is so much destructive memory, a little
forgetfulness may be in order," concludes one of Israel's
best-known writers in this anecdotal history chronicling 4,000
years of trouble in his hometown.
</p>
<p> AMONG SCHOOLCHILDREN by Tracy Kidder (Houghton Mifflin;
$19.95). In this close-up view of a typical fifth-grade class,
the Pulitzer-prizewinning author portrays living, breathing
children, often overwhelmed by homegrown problems, and an
outstanding teacher who scores an A for dedication.
</p>
<p> LORD BYRON'S DOCTOR by Paul West (Doubleday; $19.95). A
tour de force about the cruelty of genius, starring Lord Byron,
Percy Bysshe Shelley, his wife Mary (author of Frankenstein) and
the narrator, an indiscreet physician.
</p>
<p>TELEVISION
</p>
<p> SATURDAY NIGHT WITH CONNIE CHUNG (CBS, Sept. 23, 10 p.m.
EDT). CBS's long-struggling magazine show, West 57th, has
re-emerged with a new name and a new star as host and chief
correspondent. One added element certain to cause a stir:
dramatized re-creations of news events.
</p>
<p> THE PREPPIE MURDER (ABC, Sept. 24, 9 p.m. EDT). The tabloid
shows had a field day with it. Now the case of Jennifer Levin
-- the New York City teenager killed during a session of "rough
sex" in Central Park -- is rehashed as a TV movie.
</p>
<p> SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE: 15TH ANNIVERSARY (NBC, Sept. 24, 9
p.m. EDT). Still crazy -- or at least trying to be -- after all
these years, the once groundbreaking comedy show waxes nostalgic
in a prime-time special.
</p>
<p>ART
</p>
<p> PICASSO AND BRAQUE: PIONEERING CUBISM, Museum of Modern
Art, New York City. The title tells all: two giants, and the
origins of a style that shook -- and shaped -- the rest of the
century. Through Jan. 16.
</p>
<p> CROSSROADS OF CONTINENTS: CULTURES OF SIBERIA AND ALASKA,
Seattle Center Pavilion. Art and artifacts by native peoples on
both sides of the Bering Strait, assembled jointly by the U.S.
and the Soviet Union. Through Oct. 15.
</p>
<p>MOVIES
</p>
<p> A DRY WHITE SEASON. A white liberal turns radical after
confronting the brutality of South African racism. Hard-edged
drama that couples the pulse of popular fiction with the jolt
of moral outrage.
</p>
<p> THE ADVENTURES OF MILO AND OTIS. Milo is a barnyard kitten
and Otis his dogged friend in this live-action children's film
narrated by Dudley Moore. If cute were still a word of approval,
Masanori Hata's charming parable would earn it.
</p>
<p> WIRED. The saddest thing about John Belushi's death might
be this grotesque requiem.
</p>
<p>THEATER
</p>
<p> THE COCKTAIL HOUR. Nancy Marchand's sozzled, sardonic
portrayal of a grande dame enriches A.R. Gurney's Wasp family
tale at Washington's Kennedy Center.
</p>
<p> SWEENEY TODD. Stephen Sondheim's unlikeliest musical, a
sympathetic look at a murderous barber and the woman who
recycles his victims as meat pies, returns to Broadway in a
shrewdly staged chamber version.
</p>
<p> THE LADY IN QUESTION. Just what is the pleasure of a drag
show? If the leading "lady" is unconvincing, it's gross. If he's
too convincing, there's no coy guessing game. And if he's just
campy enough, the joke is over in five minutes. Alas, this
off-Broadway farce lasts two hours.
</p>
<p> THE GEOGRAPHY OF LUCK. The drifters and hustlers in Marlane
Meyer's desert panorama mingle the doomed banality of Sam
Shepard characters with the quixotic blessings of William
Saroyan's The Time of Your Life. At the Los Angeles Theater
Center.
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