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Nancy Wickwire is a beautiful and compelling Roxane; but she should look older at the end, for Rostand jumped ahead 15 or 16 years here, as Shakespeare had done in A Winter's Tale. Michael Higgins is excellent as the ardent but inarticulate Christian; he can convey earnestness as well as anyone in the company. Michael Lewis is a strong and brusque Comte de Guiche. Sorrell Booke makes a lovable Ragueneau, the baker whose heart lies in trying to write verse rather than in selling pastry (did anyone ever better deserve the name of poetaster?). And there are other laudable...
...will be less reticent in the future. Painters Yoshaiki Shimizu and Alden Christie, as well as sculptor Jose Buscaglia, particularly distinguish themselves by their technical skill. In Shimizu's The Climbers the mesage is forceful and direct. The figures are painted in a monumental, realistic style. Bright, clear colors convey the brilliance of the sun's reflection and massive forms suggest in their postures strength and determination. One disturbing detail is the distortion of the faces. Perhaps also the picture is to slick, too much like a "Come to Switzerland" poster. Much of Shimizu's work like this picture owes...
...Columbia Records' spade-bearded Arranger-Producer Mitch Miller, who has plunged enthusiastically into the new art: "I remember asking Rodgers and Hammerstein how they decided what to put to music, and what to leave to dialogue. They replied that they used music only when it became impossible to convey an' emotional feeling by words alone. The same should apply to commercial musical spots...
...time when the cute, effervescent sparkle of a Debbie Reynolds type has replaced more mature beauty, Ingrid Bergman makes you see how very few striking actresses are left. The camera looks closely at her for long, half-minute stretches; her voice and her face convey great emotion; there may be no other actress who can fill brief scenes with quite so much feeling...
...gets along well with the group." He would like to see the return of solid rules of behavior which all kids, understood and appreciated. Instead, he finds children, his own included, Geselled and Spocked and Ilged to the point where "nothing but a jail term is going to convey disapproval." He even holds that what he learned about women from the Police Gazette was educational. And what is left of the child's fine art of doing nothing? "Many many hours of my childhood were spent in learning how to whistle . . . how to snap my fingers. In hanging from...