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Soon the swollen contours and lush col ors of paintings like Braque's Still Life with Pitchers, 1906, would give way to the austerities of cubism. The demands of more legible structure and more com plicated feeling drew Matisse away from the style he had largely invented. As Elderfield notes in the catalogue, "Matisse's ideal voluptuous world only fully emerged when Fauvism had ended, and could only be created by renouncing that part of it he felt to be excessive...
These and other problems are scheduled for public airing on Capitol Hill in the wake of the Washington Post story. Wisconsin Democrat William Proxmire, chairman of the Senate Banking Com mittee, has announced that he will call Comptroller Smith to testify about what Proxmire called the comptrol ler's "failure to do a vigorous enough job on bank regulation." In the House, New York Democrat Benjamin S. Rosenthal, chairman of a Government operations subcommittee, will hold hearings this week on the adequacy of federal examinations of banks. He plans to call representatives of the comptroller's office, Citibank...
Everything in Special Section is based on recent history. The events bear both the sting and the awkward com edy of truth. But unlike Z, a previous Semprun - Costa-Gavras collaboration based on the 1963 assassination of Gregorios Lambrakis, a Greek politician, Special Section lacks the narrative drive that can make a good melodrama with political meaning. Instead, the film is a puppet show of moral indignation...
...early going, this inexpensive little picture risks being absurd, yet com pels respect for some witty writing and well-paced direction. The film gets better as it goes along, for itliterally has a second level...
Inside the bank a stereotyped sit-com develops around Sonny, his stupid accomplice, ten giggly bank tellers, and the irate manager. Outside, the street scene becomes an urbanized Bonanza as fleets of cops swarm up the fire-escapes, helicopters circle overhead, FBI men flood to the scene, and reporters come puffing up with their cameramen. It's an official's dream: what police chief, FBI man, or reporter has ever had enough time to cover a bank robbery on the spot? Indeed, what film director...