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- Sep. 04, 1989: Critics' Choice
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Sep. 04, 1989 Rock Rolls On:Rolling Stones
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- CRITICS' CHOICE
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- <p>TELEVISION
- </p>
- <p> BLACK IN WHITE AMERICA (ABC, Aug. 29, 10 p.m. EDT); THE
- R.A.C.E. (NBC, Sept. 5 and 6, 10 p.m. EDT). Two networks tackle
- the difficult subject of race relations. The ABC report is a
- series of profiles put together by the network's black
- producers and correspondents; NBC's live two-parter, with Bryant
- Gumbel as host, features a survey of viewers' attitudes on race.
- </p>
- <p> ALIVE FROM OFF CENTER (PBS, Aug. 30, 10 p.m. on most
- stations). Meredith Monk transports us to a medieval French
- village circa 1349 in Book of Days, the penultimate offering of
- this summer series of offbeat video works.
- </p>
- <p> THE PRESIDENT AND MRS. BUSH TALKING WITH DAVID FROST (PBS,
- Sept. 5, 8 p.m. on most stations). The British interviewer, last
- seen on the tabloid show Inside Edition, resurfaces for an
- hourlong chat with the First Couple.
- </p>
- <p>BOOKS
- </p>
- <p> HARP by John Gregory Dunne (Simon & Schuster; $18.95).
- Novelist Dunne (True Confessions) fesses up that his own barbed
- style and snappish instincts have roots in an immigrant Irish
- heritage in which he learned that writing well is the best
- revenge.
- </p>
- <p> NICE WORK by David Lodge (Viking; $18.95). A funny, adroit
- novel about an executive in one of Britain's rust-belt factories
- and the feminist lecturer who does field research on his
- old-fashioned methods.
- </p>
- <p> AUGUST 1914 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Farrar, Straus &
- Giroux; $50 hardback, $19.95 paper). Since this novel first
- appeared in English 17 years ago, the 1970 Nobel laureate has
- added some 300 pages to his fictional but heavily researched
- saga of Russia's catastrophic involvement in World War I.
- </p>
- <p>MOVIES
- </p>
- <p> COOKIE. English teenager Emily Lloyd brings an acute ear and
- a fetching presence to her role as a Brooklyn punkster in this
- comedy about a Mafia don (Peter Falk) with a score to settle and
- a wayward daughter to raise.
- </p>
- <p> DISTANT VOICES, STILL LIVES. Three children in a Liverpool
- family literally sing their way through two decades of air
- raids, poverty and a father's sere brutality. Prepare to be
- thrilled, perplexed, horrified, haunted.
- </p>
- <p> SEX, LIES, AND VIDEOTAPE. Ann (Andie McDowell) doesn't care
- for sex; Graham (James Spader) can't have it. They make the
- perfect posterotic couple in this very funny, poignant
- psychodrama.
- </p>
- <p>THEATER
- </p>
- <p> PRIVATES ON PARADE. War is hell, and so are high heels, as
- British forces in Malaysia learn while staging musicals in a
- campy off-Broadway delight.
- </p>
- <p> MADAME SHERRY. Connecticut's revival-oriented Goodspeed
- Opera House unearths another musical charmer about love, money
- and mistaken identity.
- </p>
- <p> INTO THE WOODS. Although Stephen Sondheim's richest, deepest
- Broadway show is ending its run, the work thrives in a fine
- national touring version.
- </p>
- <p>MUSIC
- </p>
- <p> MAHLER: SYMPHONIE NO. 1 (Deutsche Grammophon). The young
- Lenny reintroduced Mahler; maestro Bernstein now leads the
- Concertgebou Orchestra in a re-examination of the composer's
- kaleidoscopic genius.
- </p>
- <p> N.W.A.: STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON (Priority). Rap that's angry,
- scary and tougher than the hard L.A. streets it comes from. Lots
- of beat, lots of truth, and no pity to spare.
- </p>
- <p> EVAN JOHNS & HIS H-BOMBS: BOMBS AWAY (Rykodisc). Stand back
- and let these boys explode: twelve scruffy juke-joint rock
- tunes as hot as the peppers at the far end of the bar.
- </p>
- <p> PETER CASE: THE MAN WITH THE BLUE POSTMODERN FRAGMENTED
- NEO-TRADITIONALIST GUITAR (Geffen). Yeah, and that's not all
- he's got. An ear for the blues, a gift for the phrase, a way to
- make a song sound like a silent prayer.
- </p>
- <p>ART
- </p>
- <p> FIFTEEN YEARS OF COLLECTING, Whitney Museum of American Art,
- New York City. The Whitney claims the world's most comprehensive
- gathering of 20th century American art; this potpourri of works
- acquired since 1972 amply reflects its riches. Through Oct. 15.
- </p>
- <p> ROBERT MOSKOWITZ, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington. Long in the
- shadow of contemporaries like Jasper Johns, this 54-year-old
- American, whose canvases feature the interplay of recognizable
- images and abstraction, gets his first museum retrospective.
- Through Sept. 17.
- </p>
- <p> PERPETUAL MOTIF: THE ART OF MAN RAY, the Menil Collection,
- Houston. More than 200 of the haunting, mysterious paintings,
- works on paper, photographs and objects created by the
- pioneering Dadaist and surrealist (1890-1976). Through Sept. 17.
- </p>
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