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...SNAPSHOT approach to photography here yields relaxed, unpretentious pictures but fails to produce photographs that have anything like the authority of complete statements. Dorfman is able at times to make a virtue of her lack of technical bravado and create images that are fresh and spontaneous but too often the pictures lack variety and psychological focus. We see everyone as if we were sitting across the table from them--they sit in some vague middle distance, not close enough for us to scrutinize them, not far enough away for us to see them as figures in an environment. And Dorfman...
...rely on such humdrum transport as yachts, private railroad cars and limousines. But safety can be monotonous, and when Getty decided to move permanently from England to his Malibu, Calif., estate this spring, he took his life in his hands. "I will go on a jumbo," he said with bravado, "and I shall probably treat myself to a first-class ticket," which should not dent his fortune, once estimated as $1.5 billion. The usually secretive Getty was surprisingly carefree: "I don't intend to take any pills and I don't drink much-just a glass of wine...
...than he was on first coming to the West. He speaks wistfully of the beautiful rivers of Ufa, in Bashkir, where he spent his childhood. It is touching to hear him refer involuntarily to the Leningrad Kirov Ballet as "we." Nearing his peak, today Nureyev dances with the familiar bravado, but also a consistency he did not have ten years ago. Finally willing to jettison his princely plumage, he uncovered a gift for simplicity that makes it seem plausible he will some day be as relaxed dancing with his shoes off as he is now with them on. He makes...
Bonnie Brewster is a match for Mosca's bravado. The way the strange lady shifts the burden of guilt to Napoleon demands a sort of subtle feminine guile that just doesn't come through in Shaw's words, something impossible to describe really. That's one of the attractions of the play--it's almost as if Shaw were testing the acting abilities of his two favorite performers; whoever acted better would convince the audience that he or she had won in this battle of the minds...
Life of Leonardo da Vinci. An Italian TV crew came to the Crimson a couple of months ago to film a documentary on university politics ten years after the Berkeley Free Speech movement. The crew thrust mikes in editors' faces, banged clapboards shut with overblown bravado, and generally looked like characters from a Keystone-Cops-Meet-C.B. Demille short. All of which made me doubt that this Italian TV documentary on da Vinci's life would be any good. I was wrong. This has so far been an excellent series, and even the dubbing (by suave Ben Gazzara) doesn...