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...real breadwinner, of course, is his alter ego, Nicholas Blake, creator of Nigel Strangeways and other shrewd detective heroes, who was himself created in 1935 to finance a repaired roof over the Day-Lewis home at Cheltenham. Day-Lewis has kept increasingly comfortable ones overhead ever since, including the 18th century home in Greenwich, where he now lives with his second wife and their two children...
...camouflaged by Vincent Price's remarkable singing voice (which Who's Who sees fit to label "baritone"), the score to Married Alive is a tolerable item. But Jule Styne and E. Y. Harburg, who wrote it, should be capable of better. Harburg's lyrics pale beside Jamaica; for the creator of Finian's Rainbow, they are pure embarrassment. Styne's music is enough to make one suspicious of the authorship of Gypsy and Funny Girl...
...White, served to show that "somewhere in the past all these kinds of music have a common ground. Our music and rock are similar in that the rhythms are strong and vital, the harmonies are crisp and clear, and there is so much improvisation that the performer is part creator. In our concert, groups thought to be opposed were working together for the same purpose...
...creator seven years ago of the first shaped geometric canvases, Stella is looked up to by dozens of other young artists as a precursor of the whole minimal school of painting and sculpture. His new works demonstrate how far removed trend-setting art has become from any concern with society, reality, human interest or popular taste: the multicolored cartwheels, half-moons and pie cuts look as though they had been stamped out on a machine. They were, in fact, designed with the aid of a protractor and compass, although unlike many minimal sculptors, Stella still believes in executing his works...
...having saddled the nation with "the New Deal, the Fair Deal, and now, L.B.J.'s Ordeal." The reception was chillier at the University of Wisconsin, where blue-jeaned students greeted him with catcalls. When Romney declared, "There's nothing more basic in America than belief in our Creator," one student jeered: "Apple pie!" Angered, Romney retorted: "That's right! And the trouble in America starts with the decline of personal principles and beliefs...