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Strolling disconsolately along London's Bond Street, Author Anthony Burgess was accosted by a friend who wanted to know why all the gloom. He was on his way, said Burgess, to dine with Producer-Director Stanley Kubrick and to see A Clockwork Orange. But why the long face, asked his friend, since the film -made from Burgess's 1962 novel of the same name-is the hit of the year? "Precisely," said Burgess. "I sold the screen rights long ago for a few hundred dollars...
...Helen of Troy. No play so great has ever failed so abysmally. Not even Marlowe's poetry could save the film from its stylistic pretensions--no important line was let past without the screen quivering in peculiar effects of light and color; no setting lacked a quality of manufactured gloom. At its climactic worst--as Faustus prepares for damnation--red blotches swirl round his head, and music builds to a crescendo. Burton grimaces in the best Burton fashion, and Faustus is swallowed into hell. All told, it was a disaster of sufficient proportion to make me doubt whether any film...
...American Motors Corp., November has often been the crudest month. That is when the company issues its generally depressing annual earnings report. Last week the usual autumnal gloom was replaced by a bright, if fragile, sense of victory. The company reported earnings of $10.2 million on sales of $1.2 billion for the fiscal year ending in September, compared with a loss of $56 million on a volume of $1.1 billion last year. American's profit potential was also sweetened when the Price Commission approved a 2.5% price increase for its newest models...
Floodlit Muscles. This preference of the real over the ideal alarmed some of Caravaggio's contemporaries, but what troubled them most was his chief pictorial invention-the dramatic light and darkness that flooded his canvases. The eye cannot travel back into the gloom; it stops; instead, the muscular, straining limbs and backs that Caravaggio delighted in painting burst highlit from the picture surface. Form is almost literally shoved in the viewer's face. David with Head of Goliath, a painting of 1600 (which may, in the view of experts, be the work of a very close imitator), shows...
...most historic meeting in Manhattan last week was, needless to say, at the United Nations. But across town, NATO was conducting an even more tumultuous and unstatesmanlike session. This NATO was not the North Atlantic Treaty Organization but the equally embattled National Association of Theater Owners. The gloom at the meeting was almost as thick as the cigar smoke...