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Real Estate Scrooge, who represented the landlords who were raising rents and evicting tenants, was played by Ian C. MacKinnon, a former candidate for City Council. Clad in a tuxedo, dark sunglasses, a black top hat and a black cloth which covered his face, he stood atop a covered shopping cart...
...planes of blue sea and sky, the tabletop rushing away to the right at a shallow angle, the triangle of the arm propping the head, and the woman's left hand drooping over the upper arm, its slack spiky fingers echoed in the red-and-blue stripes of a cloth draped over the chair arm. All these angles, beautifully integrated, give the image an architecture that solidifies the passing moment, a firmness to which Hopper's diagonals pointed...
...without degenerating into niggle, mess and muddle. Structure was the key, not just to Diebenkorn's forthrightness as a painter but to his delicacy as well. And it survives even in the little still lifes, which are hardly more than visual nouns--a glass of water on a gray cloth, with orange poppies in it; a knife in another glass, bent by refraction--rendered with the immediacy and verve one associates with Manet's asparagus and peonies...
...produce; a new Captain Kangaroo is in syndication; Nickelodeon schedules five hours of preschool TV each weekday; and PBS has the Muppet-like Wimzie's House and, coming in the spring, Teletubbies. A huge hit in England, Teletubbies stars four beings who seem to be made out of terry cloth and who all have TV screens in their stomach. Well, it's the English--they also love marmite and Oasis...
...America series, the black-jacketed, red-white-and-blue-striped, gold-embossed collection from the people who bring you Penguin Classics. You might have read Absalom, Absalom out of one. Library of America specializes in collections of novels widely available in paperback which--when tastefully reset and bound in cloth--somehow warrant a $35 price...