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...entertainment. I've had enough of interviews with Midwestern chicken farmers and the supercilious, you're-not-too-bright enunciation American announcers have been instructed to use. I'll take the BBC's thoroughly professional and human sound. Besides, their reception is a whole lot clearer...
...frequent distance between TIME'S wishful editorializing and reality has perhaps never been clearer than in the brief filed in behalf of the Warren Commission [Nov. 25]. The complaint that new evidence has not been produced to challenge the report is beside the point-as even your story makes clear...
...Hallelujah! That special breed of man, the AID volunteer in Viet Nam, finally got some recognition [Oct. 21]. If the American people could get more news of that "other war" and the special men who wage it, everything that is being done in Viet Nam would be in clearer perspective. We are not just tearing down-we are trying to build there...
...Artists prosper," says Rickey, "but it becomes no clearer what art is. To present a Swedish roller bearing as art is at least as plausible as Warhol's presenting a commercial container." Rickey's difference, as the current exhibition of 75 of his works in Washington's Corcoran Gallery of Art demonstrates, lies in subordinating the precision bearing to the pure expression of what it is meant to supply-freedom of movement. He divorces the machine from function and allows it to do what is natural for it. Says he: "In a mechanized environment a machine that...
...myth of Director Mike Nichols, invulnerable up to now, has been that he could bust a comic rib with an onionskin script, but The Apple Tree is too thin for even his nimble touch. While Barbara Harris is as saucily mocking as ever, it becomes clearer with each performance that she is more of a zany caricaturist and mimic than she is an actress. She can do instant impersonations of people and moods, but except for her 1962 performance in Oh Dad, Poor Dad, she has never developed a character. In the past, Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick have written...