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...STILL-UNRELEASED Economics visiting committee report has opened the closet door to the Economics Department and to university education as a whole. The time has come to pull out the skeletons rotting there and give them a proper public burial...
...boot sized 9½B. The day President Eisenhower suffered his coronary thrombosis, Manchester, you can bet, knew what he had for breakfast: "beef bacon, pork sausages, fried mush, and flapjacks." Statistics tumble on the reader's head like the rich chaos from Fibber McGee's closet. Who else would know that the average height of American women increased ½ in. between 1945 and 1954 (from 5 ft. 3½ in. to 5 ft. 4 in.)? Or that they were "being impregnated," in Manchester's phrase once every seven seconds...
...journalist (played by a grimly floundering Jon Voight) mounts a one-man crusade to avenge that death. But after allowing himself to be beaten up, employed by Israeli intelligence, threatened with quick extinction by murderous closet Nazis, and finally pushed under the wheels of an oncoming train, it becomes hard to believe that it is only the romance of investigative reporting that is driving him drearily on. In comparison to Voight's unswerving dedication, Beatty's mania seems just about as workaday as a deskman collecting box scores from the local high schools...
...fashion. The Reichenbach Falls death-struggle of the Final Problem has been elevated here to a hellish showdown above a train careening through the Bavarian mountainscape. The Moriarty mystique has been defused until it becomes simply Holmes's refracted trauma at having discovered two skeletons in his father's closet. And the story, with its pivotal heroine, its deferentially anonymous references to European nobility, its global crisis in the offing, and even its fixation on the "points" of a railroad track, emerges as a hybrid of "A Scandal in Bohemia" and "The Adventure of the Bruce Partington Plans...
...does not have to make extravagant claims for Liberman as some kind of closet daemon of art history in order to note that his exclusion from the official version of recent American painting is an error. Perhaps, after this admirable small show, a retrospective may come to put him in focus∙Robert Hughes