It’s Memorial Day, and he lays out his uniform on the bed. World War II: Ninth Division, 47th Infantry Regiment, Second Battalion, F Company. He curses as he struggles to pin on the ribbons-the old spike-and-screw hardware is stiff and unworkable. And he has mislaid the little wire that holds his uniform shirt collar down Read More
A. Dean Bell’s What Alice Found , qualifies as the latest example of an independent film of limited means and unlimited artistry that has made this year of moviegoing so unpredictably invigorating. It seems we’re passing through a period in which low-budget productions shot on digital video provide more luminous, lifelike characters, compelling drama and Read More
Dear Tina,
My boyfriend just left me for another woman. I don’t want to date ever again.
Lost in Nashville
Dear Lost,
Pure rubbish!! Why not ring up my good friend Simon Dumenco-I adore him! V. hot!!! Not such big fan of cuckolding boyfriend … try K. Andersen, also ….
Dear Read More
Manet/Velázquez: The French Taste for Spanish Painting , the exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, has been dismantled, the pictures packed in crates and shipped back to their respective collections. Out of sight, out of mind? Not a chance. Manet/Velázquez was an event-”once in a lifetime” is the phrase-that will be talked about for Read More
This is father season. The greeting-card racks have changed from pink (Mother’s Day) to blue. The most popular logo is a small, motorless boat, either a sail or a dinghy; second runner-up seems to be a golf club or a steer horn. But someone might mention that for many potential card buyers, the boat has Read More
During the course of this Presidential campaign, voters have been treated to hours of amateur psychoanalysis of Al Gore. Every aspect of the Vice President’s life, dating back to his childhood, has been examined for clues about his character. Much concern has been expressed, for instance, about the critical question of whether he actually endured Read More
Women , photographs by Annie Leibovitz, essay by Susan Sontag. Random House, 239 pages, $75.
At the beginning of the essay that introduces her friend Annie Leibovitz’s new book of pictures, Women , Susan Sontag tells us that most of the women photographed are fully clothed, and therefore it is “not the other kind Read More
Once again, Americans are given to Great Awakenings. As in the middle of the 18th century and again in the first half of the 19th, surging religious revivals are the rituals wherein vast numbers affirm in unison that something binds them above and beyond the almighty self. To the jaundiced Manhattanite, nothing could be more Read More
Once again, Americans are given to Great Awakenings. As in the middle of the 18th century and again in the first half of the 19th, surging religious revivals are the rituals wherein vast numbers affirm in unison that something binds them above and beyond the almighty self. To the jaundiced Manhattanite, nothing could be more Read More
