Word: artists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Your shabby treatment of Jane Fonda filming A Doll's House [March 12] is nothing more than a pandering to that part of your audience that believes all feminists are viragoes and/or lesbians. Miss Fonda is a talented artist and a courageous person who deserves at the very least unbiased coverage by your magazine...
...benefit auction in Los Angeles for the "Neighbors of Watts," Norton Simon, the millionaire art collector and philanthropist, plunked down a cool $23,000 for Ripening, a drybrush watercolor of two tomatoes on a weatherworn windowsill. "Fantastic," glowed the artist, Actor Henry Fonda, who had donated the watercolor to the auction. "Norton and Jennifer [Norton's wife, Actress Jennifer Jones] phoned my wife Shirlee the day after the auction to say how pleased they are with the painting. Norton said: Tell Henry that's not the way to ripen tomatoes-on a windowsill...
...writer which, when I was 16, I thought I'd become at 20. In All My Friends Are Going to be Strangers, he pulls adolescent pranks which upset whole families and mortify his best friends, and McMurtry chalks them all up as the natural actions of a sensitive, unspoiled artist. Since McMurtry himself has a very likable writing talent, rarely has so dull a conception of a novel proved so pitiable a waste of time...
There are moments when we think McMurtry is up to Deck's primitive I-am-an-artist game. When Deck's cartoonist-lover feels that he does not understand her own pain, she tells him that he just isn't used to thinking about people. But then she adds that Deck is everything any woman should want (especially if she already has a nice apartment). And the entire novel ends with a glorification...
...nameless narrator is Canadian, like herself, and a bit younger-in her late 20s. A commercial artist making a perfunctory living by illustrating children's books, she has left her husband and her own child. "A divorce," she observes with her dreadful gift for understatement, "is like an amputation; you survive, but there's less...