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CRITICS' CHOICE, Page 1
TELEVISION
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.
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.
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.
BOOKS
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.
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.
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.
MOVIES
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.
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.
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.
THEATER
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.
MADAME SHERRY. Connecticut's revival-oriented Goodspeed Opera
House unearths another musical charmer about love, money and
mistaken identity.
INTO THE WOODS. Although Stephen Sondheim's richest, deepest
Broadway show is ending its run, the work thrives in a fine
national touring version.
MUSIC
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.
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.
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.
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.
ART
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.
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.
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.