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Nov. 12, 1990: Critics' Voices
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
Nov. 12, 1990 Ready For War
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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CRITICS VOICES, Page 22
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<p> ART
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<p> VICTOR PASMORE: NATURE INTO ART, Center for International
Contemporary Arts, New York City. A small retrospective of one
of Britain's leading Modernist painters, designers, teachers and
theorists. Nov. 9 through Feb. 17.
</p>
<p> REVELACIONES: THE ART OF MANUEL ALVAREZ BRAVO, Friends of
Photography Museum, San Francisco. In Bravo's great photos, a
modern eye schooled in Surrealism meets a timeless place soaked
in the myths of church, folklore and revolution. Yet this
uncanny locale is still recognizable as the harsh and tender
world of Mexico. Now this is magical realism. Through Dec. 30.
</p>
<p> BOOKS
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<p> IN PRAISE OF THE STEPMOTHER by Mario Vargas Llosa (Farrar,
Straus & Giroux; $18.95). The loser of Peru's presidential
election returns to his typewriter with a sexy novel that proves
the brain is also an erogenous zone.
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<p> BUFFALO GIRLS by Larry McMurtry (Simon & Schuster; $19.95).
Calamity Jane joins Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show in
another wistful novel by an author who, almost single-handedly,
keeps the legendary West alive in an age of revisionist
historians.
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<p> MOVIES
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<p> THE NASTY GIRL. A Bavarian schoolgirl starts poking into her
hometown's Nazi past and becomes the local scourge. Michael
Verhoeven turns social satire into exhilarating comedy. And Lena
Stolze is a perky paradigm for young Germans unafraid of old
demons.
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<p> THE KRAYS. The sun set on the British Empire, and the vermin
came out to play. In the 1960s these Cockney twins ruled the
London underworld with silken sadism. Peter Medak's docudrama
underscores the mom-obsessed brutality of the Krays.
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<p> TUNE IN TOMORROW. Like the soap operas it parodies, this
broad comedy teases more than it delivers in its tale of a
blowsy woman (Barbara Hershey), her avid nephew (Keanu Reeves)
and a radio writer (Peter Falk) who loves mischief and hates
Albanians. A savory score by Wynton Marsalis, though.
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<p> MUSIC
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<p> THE CALL: RED MOON (MCA). Mystical, mythic rock that stakes
a strong claim in territory explored by the likes of the Band
and Van Morrison. Wildly ambitious, the Call keeps well away
from pretension with the unassuming vigor of its homespun
rhythms.
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<p> BRAHMS: SONATA NO. 3; INTERMEZZI, OP. 117 (Sony Classical).
Emanuel Ax whittles Brahms' mightiest sonata down to size in a
performance that combines majesty with might. Meanwhile, the
mournful, enigmatic intermezzos of the composer's later years
get tender, loving care.
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<p> DEXTER GORDON: HOMECOMING--LIVE AT THE VILLAGE VANGUARD
(Columbia). Gordon's 1976 return to the U.S. after 14 years
abroad produced a smashing live album. Now reissued with the
latest batch of Columbia Jazz Masterpieces releases (other
offerings include Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Duke
Ellington and Dave Brubeck), this two-disk set features a
throaty version of 'Round Midnight that ranks as one of the
great tenor sax performances of all time.
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<p> TELEVISION
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<p> CHEERS (NBC, Nov. 8, 9 p.m. EST). While The Simpsons and
Cosby try to clobber each other, this hardy perennial has
quietly passed them both and grabbed the No. 1 ratings spot.
Tonight the barroom gang marks its 200th episode with an
hour-long special featuring talk-show host John McLaughlin.
</p>
<p> PSYCHO IV: THE BEGINNING (Showtime, Nov. 10 and 16, 9 p.m.
EST). What was Norman Bates like as a child? Mother troubles,
we suspect. Anthony Perkins is back in his most famous role, and
Henry Thomas (E.T.) plays the young Norman in flashbacks.
</p>
<p> BIG ONE: THE GREAT LOS ANGELES EARTHQUAKE (NBC, Nov. 11 and
12, 9 p.m. EST). See a big American city reduced to rubble! See
a sexy seismologist (Joanna Kerns) warn people of the impending
disaster! See a major TV network stretch a hokey disaster movie
into two boring nights!
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<p> THEATER
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<p> ABUNDANCE. Beth Henley (Crimes of the Heart) switches from
Southern Gothic to Old West revisionism in this off-Broadway
portrait of desperate mail-order brides and lonely plainsmen who
seek them, starring Amanda Plummer, Tess Harper and Keith
Reddin. Behind the stoic pioneer myth lay pain, privation and
poverty.
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<p> SHADOWLANDS. Late in life, the confirmed bachelor C.S.
Lewis, author of The Screwtape Letters and the fantasy classics
The Chronicles of Narnia, found love with American poet Joy
Davidman. Then sadness struck. Nigel Hawthorne and Jane
Alexander repeat their London roles on Broadway in this poignant
tale.
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<p> TWO TRAINS RUNNING. The year is 1968, one of the most
turbulent of the century, but outwardly nothing much goes on in
the black luncheonette that is the setting for this beguiling,
comic slice of life from Pulitzer prizewinner August Wilson
(Fences, The Piano Lesson.) Yet the show at Boston's Huntington
Theater is rich in symbol and metaphor--the author's subtlest,
shrewdest reflection yet about how to overcome the bitter past.
Through Nov. 25.
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<p> A MASTERPIECE RESTORED
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<p> A somber wedding party makes its way to the riverside, where
suddenly the bride (Dita Parlo) hitches up her dress, perches
on a barge boom and swings onto the boat for a honeymoon on the
Seine. Thus begins Jean Vigo's 1934 French film L'Atalante,
which ends when the groom (Jean Daste) finds his restless spouse
at an arcade, lifts her up and carries her out over his
shoulder. In between are scenes of sweet, surreal comedy that
dazzle with gorgeous movie movement. Vigo was tubercular from
youth and died at 29, just as his saucy masterpiece was being
mauled by the producers. But his love of life and film informs
every frame of L'Atalante. It is evident in the vibrant
camerabatics, in Maurice Jaubert's haunting score and in the
performance of grouchy, ursine Michel Simon, the living relic
of a lifetime happily misspent at sea. Last year the French
restored L'Atalante to its original form, even adding nine
minutes of footage. Now American audiences can savor this sweet
enthraller of a river romance in all its radiant glory.
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<p>By TIME's Reviewers. Compiled by William Tynan.
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