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Thanks for printing the article [Feb. 23] on the man who is probably America's greatest living artist-Thomas Hart Benton. Let others relegate him to the cellars; time will vindicate him. Eventually the world will gag on the "hysterical subjectivism" of the abstract expressionist paintslingers...
Half fact and half fancy, the old gag is not really funny-not to wrestlers, at any rate. Out on the grunt-and-groan circuit the oldtimers are still working because the old act is still packing them in. Flabby characters who once had the lean, handsome muscle of the stock-company hero now fill in nicely as villains. And week after week, in more than 300 arenas across the country, the good guys tangle with the bad guys in the stylized, make-believe mayhem that has made professional wrestling one of the most prosperous trades in show business. Says...
...Rodgers score can be pretty (7 Am Going to Like It Here), or have zip (I Enjoy Being a Girl), or lead to fun (Don't Marry Me). But it gets few assists from the lyrics, and the libretto gains nothing from its Joseph Fields brand of gag. Perhaps the right comparison for the show is not with first-flight Rodgers and Hammerstein but with second-best Rodgers and Hart. Such work might well be less smoothly professional than Flower Drum Song, but it was more individualized. If it sagged, it would suddenly soar; if there was nothing notable...
...Uncle (French). Jacques Tati (Mr. Hulot's Holiday), who is probably the cinema's most gifted present practitioner of the sight gag, has produced a satire on the mechanization of modern living that is always pretty witty, although in moviemaking terms it is sometimes tatty Tati...
...Uncle (French). Jacques Tati (Mr. Hulot's Holiday), who is probably the cinema's most gifted present practitioner of the sight gag, has produced a satire on the mechanization of modern living that is always pretty witty although, in movie-making terms, it is sometimes tatty Tati...