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...artful candid camera about the wintry city as they hunger for food or affection and disclose, in commonplace words and gestures, the misery that grips most of them. The resulting snapshots go deeper than a surface image: ¶The little flamenco street singer has the face of "a perverted farmyard beast. He is too young in years for cynicism-or resignation-to have slashed its mark across his face, and therefore it has a beautiful, candid stupidity." He sings from 1 p.m. to 11, spends more than half of what he earns on supper, then sings until 2 a.m. before...
...Association sees no better solution than the traditional method used for generations in the Manx cat business. It urges farmers in the Isle of Man to get a genuine rumpy torn (long hind legs and a dimple where his tail should be) and give him the run of a farmyard stocked with a dozen ordinary female cats. Some of his produce will be ordinary cats; some will be sad little stumpies, but others will be rumples, worth ten guineas ($29.40) when shipped to Manx cat lovers...
...lines sensitively stitched and pyramided together. Claude Lorrain's Sermon on the Mount created a hilltop grove, shepherds and their flock, a wide and crowded harbor and a distant town, all with a little ink and broad watery washes. Peter Paul Rubens' delicately tinted watercolor of a farmyard was as tender and vivid as April grass. Thomas Gainsborough's charcoal sketches showed that he could read the face of a field as surely as a human expression...
...spider, who spins over his sty such complimentary words as SOME PIG, TERRIFIC, RADIANT and HUMBLE. The farmer is so impressed by these magic signs that he spares Wilbur, who lives fattily ever after. Author White (who lives on his own Maine farm) also does a fine job on farmyard life as seen through the eyes of geese and sheep, and reaches his peak with a scurrilous rat named Templeton who, like Satan in Paradise Lost, pretty nearly steals the show...
...Karl Knaths, 60, Cape Cod abstractionist: The Moon, an angular farmyard scene in grey and lavender, and Salt Flats, a seaside scene in blues and greens...