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ROBERT HENRI-Chapellier, 954 Madison Ave. at 75th. Henri was best as a portraitist: with two circlets of emerald green he puts a Gaelic glint into an Irish boy's eyes. The 41 works include sketches of his fellow rebels in the Ashcan school and the well-known painting of a Chinese worker, Jim Lee. A nude that raised eyebrows at the 1913 Armory show is still a scene stealer. Through April...
...will even such careful legal foresight stand up? Mexican lawyers not in the divorce trade point with a glint of malice to the Mexican federal law requiring foreigners to get divorces by the laws of Mexico City, which do not permit divorce by mutual consent as in Chihuahua. By these rules, some lawyers claim, many thousands of U.S. citizens are unintentional bigamists...
CORRUPTION IN THE PALACE OF JUSTICE. Playwright Ugo Betti finds a tiny glint of light in the tarnished soul of a corrupt justice and gives it a chance to shine after a suffocating night journey through the earthly kingdom of evil...
Opposing coaches swear that he has eyes in the back of his head. As he dodges around back there, he has an uncanny "feel" for tacklers closing in on him from behind, and the glint of sunlight off a gold helmet among a swarm of defenders downfield is all he needs to register the position of his receiver. Says Coach Hardin: "Some people will be in a room a thousand times, and when they're out of it, they can't tell how many lights it has, what shape the furniture is, or anything. Staubach could. He sees...
Brendan Behan on Joyce (Folkways; $5.95) is a hilariously informal lecture delivered by the barroom-and-music-hall playwright to the learned exegetes of the James Joyce Society. This is pub criticism, garrulous and guileful, with now and again a boozy glint of insight...