Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...franc were devalued at 9.785%-the figure in Le Monde. The second paper outlined a devaluation of 7.5%. The third report, prepared at De Gaulle's personal request, projected the consequences if he were not to devalue at all. When everyone had spoken, the General gave a brief resume of the trends of thought...
...memorable scene, the plot is actually overlooked, and Paper Lion attains brief beauty as a documentary on pro football. For ten silent minutes, the Lions prepare for a preseason exhibition game with the St. Louis Cardinals. With the unsmiling dignity of bullfighters, the players in the dressing room tape up their scarred knees and ribs, drop their false teeth and rings into a trainer's cigar box, suddenly smash their shoulder pads in explosive bursts against a tile wall. The game itself is a vivid swirl of colors and curses, as the sweating players pound out their fury against...
Though disappointing, Anti-Memoirs is a remarkable cultural confection, especially for readers armed with some prior knowledge of Malraux and France, not to mention a tolerance for offhand allusions to everything from Vishnu to Vichy water. Its most accessible elements are brief recollections of personal danger, each spiced with the author's sense of fate and history. Such incidents were chosen because they brought Malraux, the man of action, face to face with death-and the limitations of human courage-just as his lifetime has brought him face to face with the limitations of the revolutionary aims that...
WHEN A PLAY is small, you've got to do big things with it to make it live. Aleksei Arbuzov's The Promise has all the signs of a small work: brief scenes that allow little sustained action, a lean plot, and a theme that's nothing to write home about. It is more a character study than a play--the story of two teen-age boys and a girl who escape death during the tragic siege of Leningrad only to become failures as adults...
Despite their casualness, such preliminary sketches are beginning to be seen more and more in U.S. museums and galleries. In 1967, an exhibit of 79 oil sketches, organized by Columbia University's Rudolf Wittkower, made a brief but much applauded appearance at Manhattan's Knoedler's Galleries. Next week, a collection of 60 sketches assembled by the Salzburg Dealer-Scholar Kurt Rossacher goes on view in Kansas City's Nelson-Atkins Gallery, and will subsequently be seen in Toledo, Providence and Minneapolis...