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Recently published have been two full-length, full-strength books excoriating the merchants of death-warming-over: The High Cost of Dying, by California Professor Ruth Mulvey Harmer (Crowell-Collier Press; $3.95), and The American Way of Death, by British-born Author Jessica Mitford (Simon & Schuster; $4.95). Both of them tend to tear down the mortician's carefully nurtured image as a compassionate, reverent family-friend-in-need and substitute an equally distorted picture of a hypocritical racketeer in black...
...Sound Stage. In France, where the movement is called the New Wave, 60 young directors made their first full-length films in less than two years (1959-60). In Poland, 22 films both long and short are now in production. In Brazil, nine new directors have made their film debuts in the last two years, and two dozen more will do the same in the next twelve months. The rage and the revolution are rising everywhere, and everywhere the new movements are really one movement, a new international cinema in which all the world's a sound stage...
...Midst of Life, the first full-length film by a 32-year-old Frenchman named Robert Enrico, is an adaptation of three stories by Ambrose Bierce, all treating of the U.S. Civil War. Though the picture was made in France with a French cast, the American atmosphere of the period is exquisitely interfused. The story is told in a sure and subtle flow of images, and Jean Boffety's photography makes a grave and lovely homage to Mathew Brady...
Since then, not surprisingly, most of the writing about Laval has been wildly partisan. Now, nearly 20 years after Laval's execution, a British editor turned historian has made a levelheaded but phlegmatic try at the first full-length biography of Laval written in English...
...Boys at Holly Beach, N.J., is in this vein, and to some eyes it may look like Jack, Bobby and Teddy on the Cape. The other is a watercolor of the artist's wife; Jackie paid "less than $1,000" for each. Anshutz' later work is mostly full-length portraits of women, pictures that effortlessly evoke the warm drawing-room atmosphere of the early 20th century. The women themselves could almost be contemporary...