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Turner's record is marred by one embarrassing failure: he has yet to spring himself-a problem that afflicts even the best jailhouse lawyers. San Quentin's Caryl Chessman, for instance, studied 10,000 legal works, took 1,000,000 words of notes, ground out more than 100...
Thus did Ngo Dinh Can, 53, brother of South Viet Nam's murdered Leaders Ngo Dinh Diem and Ngo Dinh Nhu, himself meet death last week at the hands of his nation's new military rulers. As President Diem's overlord of central Viet Nam, Can, a...
Happily, Harvey Sollberger's "Two Oboes Troping"--composed specifically for these two instrumentalists--neutralized this fault, almost transforming it into a virtue. The long sustained notes of Miss Martin's part displayed her beautiful singing quality to best advantage, whereas Marx's part was filled with strongly accented staccatos that...
The effects are skillful and well thought out. Anne Hollander's costumes, striking and simple, the makeup, the lighting, and especially W.E. Schroeder's set--all are striking in concept as well as in execution. One could quibble about Seth Carlin's background music, which sometimes seems unnecessarily distracting, but...
The haphazard crackling of aging oils is time's contemptuous comment on Mondrian's ice-pure ideals. He himself wrote in the mid-'20s that he preferred "a more or less mechanical execution" using "materials produced by industry," because de Stijl sought a rapport with the new...