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...unsuspecting people for a year. While the element of good in his work must be considered, there is no doubt that the revivals brought in many thousands of dollars unjustly. Even if Gortner didn't share in the cash (he does not tell us), a number of his unwitting con men colleagues did. Furthermore, there is no evidence that the profits from this movie are going, in any way to undo the exploitation Marjoe purports to expose...
THINGS ARE GETTING complicated for the con boys these days. It's no longer quite as easy to ride roughshod over the range six shooter in hand, rustling a few hundred heads here and there. Today's Texas stock is mostly paper not cattle or sheep, but as Harvey Katz's expose of Texas politics demonstrates that same frontier morality still exists, despite the increasing complexities of the world of high finance...
...humor plays with prejudices rather than on them. "Were they colored?" the police asked the elder Sanford about a gang of thieves in an early episode. "Yeah," he replied. "White." The old man, played by Redd Foxx, has none of Archie's anger. He is simply an engaging con artist who will resort to any ruse to keep his son from quitting the business and leaving home...
Another book about Igor Stravinsky? No, not just another book. Lillian Libman's A nd Music at the Close: Stravinsky's Last Years, published this week (Norton; $9.95), has already, sight unseen, caused the music world's most con brio feud of the decade. Engaging in a bit of pre-publication drumbeating last spring, Libman disclosed that her book would challenge the familiar portrait of Stravinsky in his later years-a portrait produced by his literary collaborations with his co-conductor, aide and surrogate son Robert Craft (TIME, June...
...former included many finely-shaped phrases--the enharmonic transition midway through the piece, for example. I objected only to the occasional blurring of the pulse by too much tempo rubato in sections containing extensively syncopated accompaniments. Nocturne 4 was treated with a delicate sense of balance; happily the contrasting con fuoco middle section was not overplayed...