Word: grahams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sure that your review of Graham Greene's The Comedians [Nov. 3] is fair to the picture, but I know that it isn't fair to Haiti. "Greene's fictional Haiti," you say, "seems not very far removed from the real one . . . a Black Power station," etc. Well, this just isn't so. Greene found what he came looking for-Papa Doc, the Tontons Macoute, Black Power, a sick society. The visitor without this preconception will see little or nothing of Haiti's cloak-and-dagger world. He will be overwhelmed instead by the Haitian...
What raises Gallo's girls above the level of genteel pornography is clearly visible at the moment in Manhattan's Graham Gallery. There sit, stand or recline ten of them, all in various voluptuous poses and assorted stages of undress. One, clad in a tank suit with a number "3" on its belly, perches on a revolving turnstile. Another, in what may or may not be a bikini top, cuddles on a brown floor rug. Still another, falling out of her low-necked dress, lounges against a lavishly embroidered sofa. The skin of each has the alabaster transparency...
Gallo sometimes sculpts men-on display at the Graham Gallery there are two, fully dressed and both looking singularly exhausted, possibly from the presence of so much female flesh. He has even been known to sculpt a cat (Rex Harrison has that). But he really considers himself "a female worshiper," and looks forward to playing Pygmalion to the first automated Galatea...
...Many psychiatrists now conclude that a patient may be aided by exposure to his doctor's sense of morality and virtue; some analysts are even advising patients, who they believe might be particularly responsive to religious guidance, to go to church. "We don't proselyte," says Dr. Graham B. Blaine Jr., chief of psychiatry for Harvard University health services. "But we are glad to encourage students who do have some continuing or burgeoning faith, to go also to their pastors...
...COMEDIANS. Graham Greene's Haitian purgatory has an excellent cast (Richard Burton, Peter Ustinov, Alec Guinness, Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Ford) and enough transcendent drama to absolve it from its most glaring sin: at two hours and 40 minutes, it is too long...