Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more Capote teleplays. In news, CBS and NBC will pioneer prime-time shows with a magazine format. CBS's 60 Minutes, to be seen on alternate Tuesdays, will widen the TV news spectrum to include the arts. Among the "guest columnists": Norman Mailer, Bishop Fulton Sheen and British Critic Kenneth Tynan. NBC's First Tuesday, a monthly two-hour program starting in January, will stress aggressive investigative reporting. The goal, says NBC News Vice President Richard Wald, is "insight, not just the slam-bang of things...
...Spaghetti. Horowitz was persuaded to do the program by an old friend, New York Times Critic-at-Large Howard Taubman, who acted as executive producer. Taubman argued that a TV recital would be a good way for Horowitz to celebrate the 40th anniversary of his U.S. debut. It would also be an ideal chance to make up for the infrequency of his public appearances in recent years...
PLAY IT AGAIN, SAM, by Woody Allen, starring same. A movie critic suffers an overdose of imagination...
...ADORATION OF THE SHEPHERDS. The scene fairly breathes piety and tranquillity. Indeed, the painting is one of the most popular masterpieces owned by Washington's National Gallery. Yet the question of who did it is surrounded by acrimony. Art Dealer Joseph Duveen and Critic Bernard Berenson broke off their friendship after an argument over whether it is by Giorgione or by his protégé, Titian. The scarcity of Giorgione's work compounds the problem. He died in his early 30s, and left behind only six or seven paintings. Thus, when Duveen bought The Adoration, he preferred...
...real-life experience. But too often, Wolfe, dressed for the role in orange or off-white suits, merely seemed like an action-painter-writer recklessly ravaging the retinas with pastel word-blobs. Was he freaking out at the reader's expense? Was he in fact a social critic using a comic-strip writer's approach or a flack for pop cultists? A high priest of the gadgetry gods or the Walter Pater of contemporary esthetics? His two new books, bursting simultaneously like a couple of hot spray cans of Mace, suggest that the answers...