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In Sherlock Jr., he rode the handlebars of a driverless motorcycle. In Steamboat Bill Jr., he flew through the air on a trunkless tree. In Our Hospitality, he went over a waterfall. When he employed sleight of lens, it was to achieve effects normally seen only on canvas. In The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Great Stone Face | 11/2/1970 | See Source »

SYBIL is a typical Radcliffe street walker. She has typically long dark hair and lugs her books in a typically purple canvas satchel. She looks a lot like your roommate, or maybe, more like your girlfriend. Sometimes she rides a bicycle to class, but the morning under surveillance she has...

Author: By Elizabeth R. Fishel, | Title: Paranoia Walking the Streets | 10/20/1970 | See Source »

Leaving the exhibition, one can't help but remember a kaleidoscope of images: Sassetta's Magi colorfully dotting a hill, the light passing through the stained-glass window of Vermeer's work, the strength of Picasso's Gertrude Stein, Rousseau's Tropics, with a monkey that looks like he's...

Author: By Meredith A. Palmer, | Title: Masterpieces from the Metropolitan Museum | 10/15/1970 | See Source »

One hundred juxtaposed masterpieces are as hard to look at as one hundred juxtaposed complementary colors: the viewer jumps from canvas to canvas. Where the Met and the MFA could have helped the viewer focus, they have not- they have made no point with their exhibition. Where one could have...

Author: By Meredith A. Palmer, | Title: Masterpieces from the Metropolitan Museum | 10/15/1970 | See Source »

The title of one of her best-known paintings, which depicts a deer skull with vast antlers hovering above a range of hills, is From the Faraway Nearby; it reflects her gift for telescopic and microscopic sight. On one hand, her work is obsessed with landscapes-as-epic, landscape as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Loner in the Desert | 10/12/1970 | See Source »

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