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DIED. Benjamin V. Cohen, 88, principal draftsman of Franklin D. Roosevelt's early New Deal legislation; of pneumonia; in Washington, D.C. One of the brightest of F.D.R.'s bright young men, Cohen came to Washington via Harvard Law School and a New York practice and quickly established himself as the most liberal troubleshooter in the President's brain trust. The bashful, bespectacled corporate lawyer-in partnership with the flamboyant politician Thomas G. Corcoran-masterminded the details of establishing the Tennessee Valley Authority, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Fair Labor Standards Act and other governmental landmarks. Cohen...
...draftsman, Mr. Neville (Anthony Higgins), has been commissioned by wily Mrs. Herbert (Janet Suzman) and her daughter Mrs. Talmann (Anne Louise Lambert) to execute a dozen architectural drawings of their estate. When not sharing their carnal favors, he is producing sketches that are precise, refined and troubling-for in them are tantalizing visual hints of a murder, perhaps of the master of the house. Will the draftsman's malefic ingenuity prevail over his hostesses' aristocratic arrogance...
...very different painters. Chia's light-operatic gifts have little in common with Cucchi's mucky, doom-laden earnestness: apoplectic chickens and mud slides in the cemetery, done in umber and black two inches thick. Nor does he seem a forced talent like Clemente, a glib draftsman whose "expressive" pictorial rhetoric is stretched paper thin to cover a paucity of formal skills. (Ah, to be young, overrated and in the Big Apple...
...aware and flexible in extreme situations, Robert Meserve, a Boston lawyer who now heads the Bar Association commission which produced the proposed rules, called the action taken in New Orleans "unfortunate." Both he and Geoffrey C. Hazard, a Yale law professor now visiting at Harvard who was the principal draftsman of the rules, hope that the Bar will move to reverse the rules at their next convention in Atlanta in August...
...kind of archetypal grandeur and sweep that is to be found only among the masterworks of modern art." Of Avery's power as a colorist, there is no reasonable doubt. The only way not to feel it in the Whitney is to wear sunglasses. But Avery as draftsman? The color weaves a seamless fabric of pleasure; the drawing punches large puritan holes...