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...night in question last week, the nation's biggest auction house, Parke-Bernet Galleries, sold off a group of 24 paintings that had been collected by the late advertising executive Alfred William Erickson and his wife Anna. Among the paintings was Rembrandt's Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer, which bears the unhappy nickname of "The Million-Dollar Rembrandt." Though there were other spectacular pictures in the collection, Aristotle had been the conversation piece of the art market since Parke-Bernet got the job of auctioning...
...nursery facilities for more than 180 children, a restaurant-bar, a dressing room, semiautomated food and beverage service, free coffee, a "Glamorama Room" with physical therapist, body-building equipment and steam room. Says Owner Nick Bebek Jr.: "These women start to take inches off their behinds, build their bust up two inches. They go insane! Then their complexions start to get clearer and they wonder why, and then they realize it's from the steam room melting off all that junk they put on their faces. They love...
Fortunately. Bronston's bust enjoys one solid virtue: a script precisely organized and competently prosed by Playwright Philip (Anna Lucasta) Yordan. who has often quite sensitively reconciled the grandeurs of the King James version with the need for a fresh, contemporary tone. After noisily establishing the Romans in Palestine. Scenarist Yordan moves swiftly and synoptically through the Gospels: The Nativity, The Flight into Egypt. The Massacre of the Innocents; Christ's boyhood, baptism and temptation in the desert; Salome's Dance and the murder of John the Baptist; the Sermon on the Mount, the triumphal procession...
...agitators from Asia. Eager crowds awaited such stalwarts as Viet Minh's Ho Chi Minh and Red China's Chou Enlai, Astronaut Gherman Titov, Lieut. Colonel Mikhail Voronov (billed as "the man who shot down the U-2") was there, and so, imprisoned in a vast new bust that stared across Sverdlov Square, was the old Russian-hater who started it all, Karl Marx...
...Actress Cardinale seems almost ludicrously crude by comparison. But her faults are not all her fault. Director Valeric Zurlini, a well-known cheesecake vendor, incessantly interrupts the subtle drama of the script to turn his lens on Claudia's chest. He obviously intends the show to be a bust. And so, in the last analysis...