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...take a month to fix a pair of hose. Square-fingered Soviet gloves, complained Izvestia, "make even the most graceful hand look like a paw." Hair rinses, shampoos and large curlers are hard to find; one reporter in Moscow waited more than four hours for a hair dresser, still was twelfth in line when the shop was ready to close. Concluded Izvestia: "If you want to look beautiful, you must suffer...
Ambiguity is peddled as the great democratic virtue of Resnais' work. He and his scenarist (to the critics' pleasure) publicly dispute whether the girl does in fact leave with her lover at the film's end. (Only her hair-dresser knows for sure...
...sets of peaks and troughs and daily routines. A fairly ambitious Chestertown white youth, for example, might plan to become a doctor or lawyer or store owner as a way of growing wealthy and serving his community. Young Negroes, similarly ambitious, aspire to the positions of undertaker or hair dresser or caterer. Traditionally no young Negro who has stayed in this community has been permitted to hold a professional job, in the white man's sense of the word. As a consequence the most ambitious young people develop skills either in positions where white men will accept themselves such...
Impeccable Innovator. At Baltimore's famed Peabody Conservatory, which he headed before accepting the Juilliard job, Mennin was a firm administrator and an impeccable dresser. He was also an innovator: he founded a new theater to present little-known operas, and an imaginative project (financed by the Ford Foundation) to find and train gifted young composers. For all that, Mennin (whose father is named Mennini) rarely arrived at his office much before noon...
...household objects-trash cans, washing machines, light cords-in the same flat technique. "I try to use what is a cliche -a powerful cliché-and put it into organized form," he says. By presenting common things, familiar to commercial art, in a different context, Lichtenstein, a onetime window-dresser, argues that he is creating something new. "It brings up the question 'What is art?' " says...