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...proved in Klute, Pakula has a restless eye for the banalities of daily life that gives the picture a richer texture than is usual in this genre. Early on, the film offers some promise. There is a brisk barroom brawl and a short car chase that is more smartly handled than these maneuvers usually are. But there is no way to build an overparanoid thriller or to provide a satisfactory ending. If the hero can break the conspiracy unaided, it cannot be much of a conspiracy. If, on the other hand, the conspiracy is all powerful, then the audience...
...Rothkos, among others, were in a warehouse in Zurich where, if they had not yet been sold, they would have been out of U.S. jurisdiction. In Ross's view, this haste suggests an intent to de fraud. In Marlborough's, it is merely evidence of a brisk desire to keep the decks cleared by moving sold commodities along. At the trial, Lloyd produced car bons of several documents substantiating his side of the story and contended that the Rothkos' arrival in New York was caused by the blunder of someone in the Paris museum...
...company says it has passed the break-even point on SX-70 manufacturing costs and that the brisk retail pace of the SX-70 lately accounted for much of a first-quarter sales rise of 8% to $147 million. Still, earnings on SX-70 sales were not great enough to offset a sales decline in Polaroid's older and profitable Colorpack line; first-quarter earnings dipped to $10 million from $11 million a year earlier...
...Kooning's art, allowing the artist to proceed immediately to the essential business of making a picture." The Women series, as the drawing made circa 1952 immediately makes clear, contained that private neurological signature known as style: the capacious, whipping curves of breast and thigh, the brisk L of the arm responding to the angles of the chair legs, the shallow, vigorous flurry of space and line around the vestiges of a head. With De Kooning, the energy and propulsion of the line tend to abolish the usual distinctions between painting and drawing; line turns out to be equal...
Last week Ecominas, the state mining corporation, again tried to sell off concessions to its major mines and this time got nibbles from two companies, Mineros Colombianos and Exber Ltd. But the companies refused to make firm commitments until the government offered better terms. One discouragement to brisk bidding was an Ecominas demand that private operators collectively guarantee to pay the government a minimum of $21 million for the first year and up to $35 million annually by the fifth year. Many companies also held back from bidding because of justified fear of the mining zone's raging violence...