Word: flam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lucas said when he was making Star Wars that he was giving up directing, and, true to his word, SWII will be directed by Irvin Kershner (The Flim Flam Man and Raid on Entebbe). "But I've always thought," he says, "that sooner or later, somewhere down the road, I will go back and do another one. But it will be toward the end of the cycle, about 20 years from now." Would you believe...
Last week a show of this late Matisse work opened at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Later it will travel to Detroit and St. Louis. Organized by four art historians-Jack Cowart, Jack D. Flam, Dominique Fourcade and John Hallmark Neff-it is a brilliant start to the art season. This is not the definitive exhibition of Matisse's cutouts; it includes 58 works, about a quarter of the known total. But if it does not exhaust Matisse's achievement as découpeur, it offers an unstinted sense of buoyancy. Matisse liked to talk...
...runs deep, wide and muddy through the heart of American literature. Melville navigated the subject on the river boat Fidele, which he filled with assorted rascals for his novel The Confidence Man. It was no coincidence that in Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn the shuck and the flim-flam cut across racial and class lines, from Nigger Jim's magical hair ball to the King and the Duke's pretentious ripoffs...
...charges by festooning the locker room with little homilies: THERE IS ONLY ONE YARDSTICK IN OUR SPORT AND THAT IS WINNING-SECOND PLACE IS LIKE KISSING YOUR SISTER. While a few players do not wholly buy his pitch, most agree with Center Len Elmore: "Lefty's the flim-flam man. It's a confidence game with him, but you buy it because he's honest about it." Now 41, Driesell is too busy chasing the national championship and overseeing sundry enterprises-the Lefty Driesell Insurance Agency, the Lefty Driesell steakhouse, the Lefty Driesell summer basketball camp...
...LATE, RUSSELL has grown steadily more obsessed with madness and artistic alienation and more self-indulgent in his exploitation of the crude, the excessive and flam-boyant. To this point, his chief forte as a director has been his handling of theatrical effect. "Women in Love" was audacious and over-ripe in imagery, and over-fancy in cinematography--lavish in caricature and lacking in precise meaning. Lawrence's form had been tortured into the shape of Russell's own Gothic sex fancies. And it made as offensive, though visually awesome, film. With "The Music Lovers," a biography of Peter Tchak...