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A A A Comments By Richard Goldstein Tuesday, Mar 10 1998

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As the novelist Kathryn Harrison, no stranger to child abuse, put it in a review of one Mann collection, ''The viewer's distress is central to the power of the work.'' Indeed, the viewer's distress is proof that what keeps many adults from molesting children is not repression but morality. Any picture that produces this sort of insight has redeeming social value.

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