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Michael Kaplan maintains the high energy level and turns in an equally polished performance as Charles Sidley, a London accountant with a three-piece suit and bowler hat, who has hired Christoforou to investigate the suspicious activities of his wife, Belinda. As a man incapable of showing emotion, Charles could be one-dimensional; but Kaplan reveals Charles's inner emotions with an occasional sigh, wince, or tightening of his lips...
Other TV action Saturday afternoon includes the ECAC Basketball wildcard playoff doubleheader (channel 4, 1:30 p.m.) and the incomparable Pro Bowler's Tour Cleveland Open (channel...
Sonnenberg was exquisitely conscious of dress as costume. In the '40s and '50s his style of accouterment was a wonder of Manhattan-cane, tight four-button suits, massive cuff links, a bowler hat, and a mustache that almost rivaled Dali's in local celebrity: not the zigzag antennae of the Spaniard but a drooping bunch of Habsburg bristle, which in his last years came to resemble the questing barbels of an old and sagacious carp...
...less daring than in years past, last week's collections seemed decidedly more wearable. Dior's Bohan bolstered his stock of gowns with evening pantsuits in sensuous fabrics. Scherrer leaned toward a Chaplinesque look in suits, and even outfitted his models with bowler hats and canes...
...artist, half magician, half charlatan, paints with paperback Freud insights and melodramatic compositions so calculating that he sometimes makes Norman Rockwell appear primitive. Yet in the midst of a darkened landscape, Magritte can mysteriously illuminate the sky: on an ominous day he makes it rain identical men in bowler hats, as impassive and relentless as Kafka's bureaucrats. In such works the conjurer celebrates and mourns the human condition and shows why, despite his shortcomings and the shiftings of fashion, he remains a perennial favorite of connoisseurs as well as crowds...