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MARY BAUERMEISTER - Bonino, 7 West 57th. In the forefront of the frantic search for new materials, a young German artist creates sensuous surfaces with polished pebbles, drinking straws, hollow shells, wood. She proves with "linen sculptures" that look like modern abstractions of Grandma's old quiltwork that she can sew - and prettily, too. Through April...
Billy's real life is crammed to the brim with that dreary banality which has become cinematically synonymous with the British middle-class. To escape the drabness of his clerkship at the local mortician's and the carpings of his parents and crotchety grandma, Billy manufactures absurd complications in his personal life. For a starter, he perpetually fabricates deceptions--apparently for the sheer adventure of extricating himself from the embarrassments which result. A neighbor inquires after his father: Billy unnecessarily invents disease and surgery. As the contradictions pile up, his lies grow more extravagant and improbable...
...Instead of delighting in life, as did Grandma Moses, Andrew Wyeth seems to revel in a dolorous view. His work depicts death, decay, hopelessness and despair. Is this "what America is like...
...what the heck. The color is nice and Christmassy, especially in the murder scenes. Hepburn looks real crazy in those crazy Givenchy vines. Her costar, who is 59, looks a feisty 45 and gives out with some grand Grant. In one episode, confronting a buxom grandma with an orange tucked underneath her chin, he grapples hilariously with a problem of some physiological intricacy: how to transfer the orange from her chin to his-without using his hands. In another, pretending to be shy, he blushingly refuses to get undressed in front of Hepburn, steps firmly under a shower and starts...
...gives kids a working familiarity with the Grandma Moses of the modern mind. For adults, it's a hundred laughs, the sort of cartoon book to read while you're coming back from insulin shock...