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...belief that "seduction of the audience through the eye is easier than through the ear," he has brought such gifted directors as Jean-Louis Barrault and GianCarlo Menotti to Hamburg to stage his productions; and as a musician, he has persuaded such fellow composers as Hans Werner Henze, Ernst Krenek and Krzystof Penderecki to write new operas for the company...
...technique that he himself worked out by instinct; meantime, he is turning increasingly to an activity that offers a better chance of enduring fame-composing. Although in his earlier career he boasted that he could neither read nor write music, he eventually learned, and even studied composition with Ernst Toch for a year. In 1953, he got the chance to do the score for the British comedy film Genevieve; his music won an Academy Award nomination, and led to writing and playing assignments for another 15 movies (recently King and Country, A High Wind in Jamaica...
...scare'em harem, this time peach-skinned, almond-eyed Japanese dishes. There is the mandatory hardware and gadgetry show, featuring a mini-helicopter equipped with such optional extras as flamethrowers and air-to-air missiles. There is the ultimate confrontation with the Evil Genius, represented by Ernst Stavro Blofeld (Donald Pleasance), an asexual monster with shaved head, hideous scar and foreign accent...
Hand-Painted & Destroyed. Now new processes are beginning to be used for reproductions that fool not only the eye but the sense of touch as well, duplicating both the color and raised brush stroke of oil on canvas. Surrealist Painter Max Ernst, for one, was astonished when technicians in France showed him duplicates of his 1966 work, The Phantom Vessel: "I was absolutely incapable of detecting that they were not my original...
...technique used to reproduce Ernst's painting is called "kamagraphy," and its invention was announced last December by an enterprising Parisian combine headed by Engineer André Cocard, 49, and backed by Master Vintner Alexis Lichine. Kamagraphy faithfully produces 250 perfect copies of a painting on a special press, destroying the original in the process (color lithographs, by comparison, can be printed as many as 500 times, though first-quality press runs, signed by famous artists, are normally limited to between 30 and 250 prints). Each kamagraph looks as though the artist had painted it by hand. The French...