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Look Back in Anger has hardly raised the curtain on the frowsiest-looking attic in years than it catapults upon the audience the most blisteringly vituperative character. While his better-born young wife (Mary Ure) bends over an ironing board and his working-class friend (Alan Bates) sprawls over the Sunday papers, Jimmy Porter looses his bilious scorn, like a revolving gun turret, on everything within range: art, religion, radio, Sunday, England and, again and again, his wife and mother-in-law. As minutely venomous as a wasp, as sweepingly violent as a whirlwind, his mockery sauced with self-pity...
...royal visitors (all male), their aides, and seven tons of their luggage at last arrived in a motorcade of 50 cars and trucks escorted by screaming German police cars, Baden-Baden was ready. A Saudi Arabian flag had even been found tucked away in the spa director's attic and streamed triumphantly in the breeze beside a palm tree hurriedly erected in the hotel park. King Saud, a bit testy from the rheumatic pains which had brought him to the spa, was shown his own bed and told that it had once been slept in by the Queen...
...wound up the big sales convention with a tasteless routine on top of a giant birthday cake, plugging a movie called Rainbow Road to Oz. Peter Pan Peanut Butter interrupted a fetching cartoon depiction of Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf, which Disney dragged out of his attic of past hits for a commercial on its crunchy product. Even Alice in Wonderland got helplessly involved in the selling melee: "Was it the smile on my Cheshire cat," asks Alice, "or the smile on my Jello...
Among art sleuths, nothing raises the after-dinner pulse like, a good tale of a masterpiece rediscovered in an attic-unless it is a tale of one hung in full view for decades but unrecognized until the right eye spotted it. Last week the art world enjoyed both kinds of discovery...
...even its subject. The clue he needed could not have been simpler. When the director of Madrid's Museum of Modern Art heard of his search, he remembered seeing, some 20 years ago, an El Greco painting of a Camaldolite Order monastery in the Colegio's attic...