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- <title>
- Mar. 08, 1993: Reviews:Short Takes
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Mar. 08, 1993 The Search for the Tower Bomber
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- REVIEWS, Page 73
- SHORT TAKES
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- <body>
- <p>TELEVISION
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- <p> Putting the Cops On the Couch
- </p>
- <p> "I was hoping that you might be willing to discuss your feelings
- about the Kronauer case." Nothing is irredeemable, but any cop
- show that begins with a line like that is in deep trouble. CRIME
- & PUNISHMENT, a new NBC series from Dick Wolf (Law & Order),
- introduces perhaps the worst gimmick of the season: each week's
- account of a crime and its subsequent investigation is interrupted
- by "interviews" with the key participants, conducted by an unseen
- questioner who sounds like a cross between smarmy therapist
- and Grand Inquisitor. The show is an odd mixture of '60s-style
- caper film (the crimes are quaint jewel heists and embezzlement
- schemes) and third-rate thirtysomething (hip relationship talk
- between the featured detectives). It deserves a quiet execution.
- </p>
- <p> MUSIC
- </p>
- <p> Omnipotent Fingers
- </p>
- <p> GLENN GOULD was a glorious eccentric: a concert dropout; a reclusive,
- self-promoting ascetic; a pianist of Horowitzian technique who,
- with curious exceptions like Bizet and Sibelius, usually shunned
- the Romantics. Sony Classical's magnificent GLENN GOULD EDITION,
- to be completed in 1994, presents Gould's entire recorded oeuvre
- (much of it previously unreleased). His Haydn is superb; his
- Mozart and Beethoven range from riveting to risible; his moderns
- dazzle. Above all, sensibility and omnipotent fingers made him
- a peerless contrapuntalist, who could with uncanny rhythmic
- acuity articulate multiple lines and transmute complex musical
- thought, especially Bach's, into pure and exciting expression.
- </p>
- <p> BOOKS
- </p>
- <p> Kid Stuff
- </p>
- <p> JOHN GRISHAM'S EARLIER THRILLERS The Firm and The Pelican Brief
- were a bit overwhooped and underthrilling. But his newest novel
- THE CLIENT (Doubleday; $23.50) works a lot better, possibly
- because the author's wide-eyed narrative style fits the title
- figure. Mark Sway is the kind of 11-year-old boy who picks trouble
- out of the air the way a seagull fields thrown french fries.
- He becomes the client of a bodacious middle-aged woman defense
- attorney by overhearing a gabby, Mob-connected New Orleans lawyer
- as this fellow is rambling his way toward suicide. Soon the
- clownish Mafia and the stumblebum cops are chasing after Mark
- and his motherly mouthpiece. Gnome alone! Hide Nintendo and
- try this one on your clever 11-year-old.
- </p>
- <p> CINEMA
- </p>
- <p> Drift and Disorder
- </p>
- <p> A MIDDLE-AGED WOMAN (JILL CLAYBURGH) abruptly leaves home and
- family for no reason she cares to articulate. Her husband (Albert
- Finney) mopes and eats mayonnaise-and-potato-chip sandwiches.
- Their younger daughter drops out of high school. An older daughter
- drops back in on their South Carolina home, married, pregnant
- and edgy. The domestic disorders of the Odom family are shown
- quite realistically in RICH IN LOVE. But they are not comically
- or dramatically painted by writer Alfred Uhry and director Bruce
- Beresford (the Driving Miss Daisy team) as the movie drifts
- to a predictably sweet conclusion. Its heart is surely in the
- right place, but it desperately needs a pacemaker.
- </p>
- <p> THEATER
- </p>
- <p> Reinventing Gravity
- </p>
- <p> CALL THEM PERFORMANCE ARTISTS, call them mimes, call them dancers
- or acrobats or circus clowns. Whatever the label for their joyous,
- wordless, surreal FOOL MOON, which opened on Broadway last week,
- David Shiner and Bill Irwin are magicians of the human body.
- They grow or shrink a foot in a twinkling. They reinvent gravity
- so that a cane mysteriously tugs one along the floor to the
- right while an umbrella lofts the other up and to the left.
- Irwin can collapse his lanky body to fit within a trunk and
- seem to descend three flights of stairs doing it. Shiner lures
- volunteers from the audience to uncork their imagination, turning
- camp into art. As a team they are exquisite, raffishly dancing
- a Tea for Two one wishes went on forever.
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