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...human subjects, painted looking away or from the back. There is more to these poses than literary anecdote, though they dwindle to that when Wyeth's delicacy falters. But at his best, his images become hermetic, despite their apparent candor; a peavey or a hanging cornhusk seems to brim with undisclosed biography. When the elusiveness at the core of his imagination reacts with his virtuoso power of rendering the soberest nuance of light, texture and weight, Wyeth becomes a formidable artist...
...when an artist of the Kano school (1543-90) produced the magnificent screens of Namban traders arriving in Japan that the Imperial Household Collection lent to New York's show, he took great care with detail: the cloaks, the baggy pantaloons, the rakish curly-brim hats, the mustaches and the grotesquely long noses of the foreign barbarians are meticulously set down. To us, it looks like caricature at first. To the lord Tokugawa, who is believed to have commissioned it, it almost certainly...
Judging by its heated promotional campaign, General Foods has decided that what the U.S. needs is the company's new decaffeinated coffee, called Brim. In markets from Boston to Los Angeles, General Foods offered consumers a tempting introductory discount of $1 on each purchase of Brim, which regularly costs $2.09 for an eight-ounce jar. Television is Brimming with commercials. In one, a wife rations out her husband's coffee to spare him the effects of caffeine. He moans: "They can send a man to the moon, they can send rockets to Mars-why can't they...
...fact, "they" have. Sanka dominates the decaffeinated market. Curiously, Sanka prices are exactly the same as Brim's, and both brands are "97% caffeine-free." Even more curiously, Sanka is made by none other than General Foods, which is pushing its new Brim. GF officials insist that Brim is aimed at people who want a heartier flavor than mild-tasting Sanka and that the new brand will not drain sales from the old one. Despite these assurances, the people at GF who are responsible for Sanka's success have strong grounds for coffee nerves, and investors will...
Like a samurai warrior, Costello is obsessed by ritual, whether it is pulling on a pair of white gloves before he uses his revolver or standing in front of a mirror adjusting the brim of his hat until it is just so. The hat, unfortunately, looks like a felt pie pan, and Delon moves mechanically through the action. Melville means to pay sober hom age to all the Hollywood films that did all this but better. It is a pity that for all its virtues, The Godson's patina of high seriousness renders every scene forced and selfconscious...