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Died. Raymond Gram Swing, 81, one of radio's best-known newscasters, whose broadcasts four nights a week during World War II reached an audience of millions around the world; of a heart attack; in Washington, D.C. Tall and gaunt, with a calm, reasoned tone to his speech, Swing was among the first of the true commentators, not merely reporting the news but attempting to find a meaning in each day's events. His competition in the 1940s was formidable-H. V. Kaltenborn, Edward R. Murrow, Gabriel Heatter-yet Swing commanded at least as large a following...
Even from outside, you can enjoy his characters; deify gaunt Max von Sydow, maintain a healthy lust for Ingrid Thulin, Bibi Anderson, and full-lipped Liv Ullman; be terrified by Hour of the Wolf and Persona, stilled by The Silence, and dragged naked through the fourteenth century in The Seventh Seal. But the distance remains -- the first six rows at the Brattle become an impassable Nordic wasteland. As Stanley Kauffmann said of The Silence, "The film is Bergman musing, and we have intruded...
Died. Greet Hofmans, 74, Dutch faith healer whose influence on The Netherlands' royal household made headlines around the world in 1956; of unknown causes; in Amsterdam. In 1949 the gaunt, gravel-voiced spinster, who claimed that God had invested her with supernatural powers, was summoned by Prince Bernhard to work her miracles on the young and partially blind Princess Maria Christina. The ministrations failed, and in 1950 Prince Bernhard ordered the faith healer from the palace-though Queen Juliana continued to consult her and allowed her to have meetings on Queen Mother Wilhelmina's estate. Rumor held Miss...
Besides those obstacles intrinsic in the attempt to bring Shaw to life, a few of By George's flaws are Mr. Adrian's, like a build that edges too far from Shaw's gaunt profile, and an accent not in all respects sufficiently malleable. But even apart from the question of looking a gift-horse down the throat, there is no call for gripes, minor or major, about Mr. Adrian's pleasantly contrived evening. The selections themselves, made by Michael Voysey, are for the most part engrossing, and there are times, as with Shaw's mockery of Sir Henry Irving...
...early 1900s became cryptic formulas for the future; in Neuilly, France. "An explosion in a shingle factory!" hooted a critic, and guards had to restrain angry art lovers when Duchamp's disjointed Nude Descending a Staircase went on view at Manhattan's 1913 Armory Show. The gaunt, enigmatic Frenchman proceeded to thumb his nose all the more vigorously at the pantheon of art. He painted a mustache and goatee on a Mona Lisa reproduction, put his own portrait on a perfume bottle, submitted a urinal titled Fountain to a 1917 salon, made reviewers dizzy with swiveling patterns driven...