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...Thirty-Nine Steps stars Robert Donat and is Hitchcock circa...
...find all this criminal activity unsettling after dinner, the networks will offer nostalgic dramas tagging after the top-rated The Waltons' family-bond wagon. ABC's The New Land, based on the movie, will star Scott Thomas and Bonnie Bedelia as Scandinavian emigrants settling in Minnesota, circa 1858. NBC's Little House on the Prairie, based on the Little House novels by Laura Ingalls Wilder, will begin with "restless but resourceful" Michael Landon (Bonanza), his perfect wife (Karen Grassle) and their three adorable daughters also settling in Minnesota...
...venturing on wintry wastes, those corpses that start mysteriously appearing, the urbane and ruthless government agent who is everything that E. Howard Hunt once hoped to be. This time, though, Alistair MacLean operates, not from some place like Bear Island or Ice Station Zebra, but in the American West (circa...
...insatiable female deities. The Women have been compared, severally and together, to the destroying Kali, to Robert Graves' White Goddess, to Alban Berg's Lulu, to Lilith and Marlene and Marilyn and Mona Lisa. Now obviously these drawings do have their demonic aspect - the air of Woman, circa 1951, with her staring black pupils, bared teeth and cuirass-like breasts, testifies to that; they are not just formal exercises. It certainly seems that De Kooning finds it hard to imagine women in other than two aspects: either the cas-tratrix or the pink, spraddling floozy who flounders dumbly...
...receded. As Philip Larson points out in his catalogue introduction to the show, "The generalized woman-image becomes a 'given' in De 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...