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...show evidence a wonderfully simple, soft and controlled line that comes closer to clearly modern style than anything in the paintings The show's excellent catalogue includes an essay by Phyllis Hattis locating the position of these drawings in the movement of early modern art. One of the finest of the drawings is actually a collage composed of several delicately drawn figures cut out, pasted onto a larger sheet of paper, and set in relation by a few background lines...

Author: By Phil Patton, | Title: Rediscovery | 5/9/1973 | See Source »

Always an astonishingly well-disciplined orchestra, the underrated Cincinnati has sprung to new life under Thomas Schippers, 43, one of America's finest native-born (Kalamazoo, Mich.) conductors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Rating U.S. Orchestras | 5/7/1973 | See Source »

...finest compliment one can pay the off-Broadway Roundabout Theater revival is that it brings out all the Joycean echoes in Ibsen. When it falters, it is simply that few actors are intrepid enough to scale the sheer rock face of Ibsen's perdurable realities. ∙T.E.K...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Free Thyself | 5/7/1973 | See Source »

...sooner did the President end his speech with a blessing for America, the Watergate affair started to crest again. Only hours after Nixon told the American people that John D. Ehrlichman was one of "the finest public servants," an FBI memorandum revealed that Ehrlichman had hired convicted Watergate conspirators G. Gordon Liddy and E. Howard Hunt to investigate the leaks that led to the release of the Pentagon Papers...

Author: By Steven Luxenberg, | Title: The Landslide Is Eroded | 5/4/1973 | See Source »

...Inspector is ample proof of this abiltiy: it puts together a myriad of figure and landscape styles, different qualities of line and shade, and images drawn from the Old Masters, Hollywood, or city streets. Juxtaposing all these sources and qualities, Steinberg shows himself a bricoleur in the finest sense -- the artist who filters through the refuse heaps of other arts to select parts for his own strange constructions...

Author: By Phil Patton, | Title: Masks of the Literal | 5/3/1973 | See Source »

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