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Reviewers were wont to acclaim Forman's earlier filmed anecdotes for exposing the drabness of life in an industrial socialist state. His method: to depict characters whose development is short-circuited by necessary compromise to the social structure. That Forman would make the same kind of film in the United State indicates that his vision is more suited to the acceptance of a restrictive state than criticizing...
...proved to be no retrospective at all but a tiny sampling of his work on canvas from 1962 to 1971, hived off from a larger, more systematic show that Critic John Coplans organized for the Pasadena Art Museum last year and has since been touring Europe to near-hysterical acclaim. The Whitney show starts with a series of the soup cans that propelled Warhol into notoriety. But earlier sequences are not present, which is unfortunate, since it denies viewers the chance to follow Warhol's extraordinary range in his exploration of impersonality, and one gets little sense...
...boomed: "Yes, Yes, Alexis! No, No, Follies" Even Curmudgeon John Simon fell for the star at the expense of an early 19th century English clergyman: "Alexis, and not Sydney," he burbled in New York magazine, "is the Smith of Smiths." Says she with the obligatory amount of modesty: "The acclaim is not that important. Listen, how many people's opinions do you really respect? Four or five? More than that is just pleasantry." But it is something more: the ovations of total strangers who agree that Alexis is proof of the pop poster's bottom line, TODAY is THE FIRST...
...Jean Lirçat, Gromaire became widely known for reviving France's long-dormant tradition of tapestry making at Aubusson during the World War II German occupation; before that, he achieved international recognition with the showing of his striking expressionist painting, La Guerre. In 1951 he won critical acclaim for his series of New York "landscapes" depicting the city as "Dantesque...
...Jacobsen, and he carried out his philosophy in stunning, spare buildings like those he designed for Oxford University's St. Catherine's College, completed in 1964. Jacobsen was equally well known for his interiors and furnishings. His famous "egg" and "ant" chairs earned him more money and acclaim than many architects received for entire buildings...