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...half-dry socks. "I'm scruffy by nature,'' she admits, but she is also an expert actress whose look and gesture redeem her ingenuousness with a suggestion of bitchcraft. Her next role should give her ambivalences full play. In John Huston's Life of Freud, she will be the young, tormented Cecily, Subtile Sig's first patient...
...handful of the items date from after World War I. And most 20th-century portraiture tries to achieve far more than surface realism. Yet these examples are especially gratifying because they depict subjects most of whose looks and work and character are quite familiar to us--Freud, Hemingway, Toscanini, Shaw, de Gaulle, Eisenhower, Gertrude Stein, Nehru, Einstein...
...much some artists can convey just in the eyes! Look at the torment in Sweden's greatest dramatist, Strindberg, as Norway's greatest artist, Edvard Munch, captured it; or the intensity in Shahn's Freud; or the burning glance of Stuart Davis' James Joyce; or the clown's proverbial subdued sadness in Loren Maclver's Emmett Kelly...
...Gropius himself a certain serenity these days. "My reputation," he says with frankness but not vanity, "has penetrated through. Now these things come to me." Next month the city of Frankfurt will award him its coveted Goethe Prize, which it has given to Thomas Mann, Albert Schweitzer and Sigmund Freud. Next fall the Duke of Edinburgh will present Gropius with the gold medal of Britain's Royal Society of Arts. Will Gropius have time next month to attend the formal opening of the embassy in Athens? "No. I don't think I can make...
...surprising private joke; as the lovers loll in a boathouse, brooding over the sin they are about to commit, an enormous black fish appears in the water below. The adulterers regard it for a moment. Then one of them, mocking psychiatry and symbol-mad film directors, laughs wryly "at Freud's theories," and they get back to their lovemaking...