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...powerfully than Francisco Goya, but the pioneer in the field-and a first-rate one-was a man who lived nearly 200 years earlier. Last week Jacques Callot's 18 etchings on The Miseries and Misfortunes of War were on display in Frankfurt, leading off an exhibition that bore the single-word title "Krieg." Goya was often lurid; Callot proves an exponent of unrelenting realism. Now honored as the "Father of French Etching," Callot was widely respected in his own day. Rembrandt owned a complete portfolio of his etchings, and some of Rembrandt's early work bears...
Above all things-perhaps even above the great goddess of fire herself-the Scythians adored decoration and adornment, and from this came their one important legacy. Even their arrows, though likely to be lost after one shot, bore intricate designs. No great warrior's belt or horse's harness lacked gold plaques. Being nomads, the Scythians found their outlet not in statues or cities but in things that could be worn. Whatever talent might have poured into architecture or grand statuary went into the molding of sculptures of gold...
...debauchery that follow each other in lubricious profusion. Through Marcello's eyes, we see one depraved spectacle after another. Individually these sordid vignettes succeed quite well, but, taken together, they do not comprise any kind of dramatic growth. Marcello's interlude with Steiner not only is unconvincing, but a bore in addition. If the funeral pace was intentional--to contrast with the orgies--Fellini erred in trying to express boredom by boring his audience. Although the Steiner episode should ostensibly have served as the keystone of his plot, Fellini did not shape it clearly enough to provide motivation for Steiner...
Price Instability. The Senate subcommittee bore down hard on another top G.E. executive-Vice President Arthur Vinson, a member on the inner-circle Executive Office who until last year was in charge of nine G.E. apparatus divisions and, as such, was George Burens' direct superior. All of the 19 price-fixing conspiracies in which G.E. was involved were in his divisions...
...music is worth hearing, some (but by no means all) of the costumes worth looking at, the play worth knowing. But that isn't enough; those who are curious are likely to find the Ajax a bore, and those who love the language may even think it something close to insult...