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During his campaign for the mayoralty of New York, Manhattan's Republican Congressman John V. Lindsay, 43, has made every effort to identify himself as a foursquare progressive, even to the extent of treating his own G.O.P. city organization like a cast-off girl friend. Last week the strategy paid off, at least in part. By nearly unanimous vote, the nominating conference of the city's left-of-Democratic Liberal Party endorsed Lindsay as its candidate in the November election...
...this predilection for cast-off and used-up objects? In part, it grew out of the pessimism of postwar Germany. Explained Schwitters: "I could not use what I had brought from the academy. I felt myself freed [from the war] and had to shout my jubilation out to the world. Out of parsimony I took whatever I found to do this, because we were now a poor country." He called this art of shreds and patches Merz, a meaningless word derived from Kommerz (commerce), but carrying with it connotations of both ausmerzen (to reject), Herz (heart), and Schmerz (pain...
...tables. Having tea at the zoo, she quietly distills despair while a prurient cuckold (James Mason) spews ugly revelations about her husband and his wife. Cornered under a hair dryer at a beauty salon, she blanches, feeling her own anguish cruelly parodied in a chance conversation with a venomous, cast-off drudge. And her spectacular scenes with Finch, pitched against the din of a more or less anonymous army of progeny, are a litany of love, hate, lies, jealousy and excruciating domestic boredom...
...only Carpetbagger exhaling unpolluted air is Broadway Actress Elizabeth Ashley. Given an insipid role as the cast-off wife who keeps stumbling over platinum blondes in Peppard's hotel suites, she turns her rough-velvet charm to advantage in a performance that bleach cannot beat. Peppard himself works manfully to conquer the handicaps of a script climaxed by preposterous revelations fraught with pop psychology, an excess that even the book avoided. Seems Peppard isn't such a bad sort, after all. He became rich, ruthless and depraved because his father had hated him ever since-ah, well. Presumably...
Pyro glosses over its terror with a sort of Hitchcock-and-bull story photographed in Spain in flamenco hues and laved in bucketfuls of blue butane gas. The film casts Barry Sullivan as a philanderer who becomes a firebug when cast-off Playmate Martha Hyer sends his house up in flame. His wife and daughter dead, Barry survives, a hideously deformed monster with a "carbonized" brain. Crazed, hunted, vowing fiery vengeance, he hides behind a mask that inexplicably looks just like his old self. To keep the movie's audience from straying out for a smoke, there are some...