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...Grant's talent, Director Michael Curtiz once said, "Some men squeeze a line to death, Cary tickles it into life." But good light comedy is still little more than exquisite froth, and Cary Grant has never won an Academy Award. "I don't quite understand all the fuss over this so-called realism," he complains. "Is a garbage can any more realistic than Buckingham Palace...
...fashionable in Washington to worry about the U.S. balance-of-payments deficit, that longstanding cause of the U.S. gold outflow. Economists frequently deplore it, businessmen point to it with alarm, and the Administration itself has put some of its best minds to work combating it. Thanks to all the fuss, the balance-of-payments problem may no longer be such a worry. Last week Treasury Under Secretary Robert V. Roosa told the House Banking and Currency Committee that the U.S.'s payments deficit in the second quarter of 1962 was very much smaller than in the first quarter...
Plots v. Things. At first glance it is hard to see what all the fuss is about. The man who has done most to provoke it is Alain Robbe-Grillet. Today's novel, he insists, must not concern itself with plot, character, symbol, metaphor or message. Instead, it must deal with things-i.e., objects-and Robbe-Grillet has brought out four books that pretend to do just that. Grouped more or less willingly around him are about a dozen writers, of whom the most celebrated are Nathalie Sarraute (Portrait of a Man Unknown) and Michel Butor (A Change...
...wonderfully stylized caricature. Miss Sanders seems every inch a professional, and her rich contralto gives "Chacun a son gout" just the right flavor. Both costumes and settings show up well under an especially good lighting system, and entrances and exits are managed exactly on cue without some of the fuss that attends; them in some theatre-in-the-round productions. One could wish for a more authentic, more piquant savor to the lyrics, but Die Fledermaus remains much like Gilbert and Sullivan: there is much pleasure however and whenever it is done...
...Fuss. After a holiday rest at Camp David in Maryland, Kennedy came back to Washington to face his weekly press conference. He clearly felt like having one (he has been skipping them from time to time lately), but he just as clearly wanted to raise no fuss that would open him to further charges of aggressiveness. He could not resist sticking an elbow into the American Medical Association for its opposition to medicare, but he ducked a question about Teddy in Massachusetts, shucked off an invitation to become involved in a public dispute with Dwight Eisenhower. Asked what he thought...