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...then do we hoot at these mistakes? For one thing, it may be that we simply find conventional discourse so predictable and boring that any deviation comes as a delightful relief. In his deeply unfunny Essay on Laughter the philosopher Henri Bergson theorized that the act of laughter is caused by any interruption of normal human fluidity or momentum (a pie in the face, a mask, a pun). Slips of the tongue, therefore, are like slips on banana peels; we crave their occurrence if only to break the monotonies. The monotonies run to substance. When that announcer introduced Hoobert Heever...
...Henri Zerner, professor of Fine Arts and the committee's chairman, said yesterday he had just returned from New York City, where he met with fine arts professors at Columbia and New York University to compare notes...
...French government to rove the country photographing historic monuments (rather like Roy Stryker's famous teams in the U.S. during the 1930s Depression). One of the finest results is a highly abstract portrait of a row of flying buttresses at Rheims Cathedral, shot in diminishing perspective by Henri Le Secq...
Françoise Gilot, 59, painter who was once Pablo Picasso's mistress, on the difference between Picasso and Henri Matisse: "Matisse was as great as his art. That was not the case with Picasso. If you had to be around him much, you suffered...
...visit his mother's grave. Free of the technical gush that sometimes afflicts photographers exposed to print, Mili offers brief notes on the art of portraiture, illustrating them with dramatically juxtaposed pictures of famous people, among them Pablo Casals, Adolf Eichmann, Jean Paul Sartre, Alfred Hitchcock and Henri Matisse. Perhaps the best is Sean O'Casey, a perfect proof that color film does not always destroy the power and the mood of a portrait...