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...least a dozen pictures a year. Among new composers, Jerry Goldsmith, 34 (Lonely Are the Brave, Freud), and Jazzman John Lewis, 43 (No Sun in Venice, Odds Against Tomorrow), are the most admired. The young writers have completely abandoned the customary 100-piece orchestra of Tiomkin's heyday; for next month's Shock Treatment, Goldsmith uses a chamber orchestra and a chilling array of electronic instruments...
...Janis, 15 East 57th. At 40, the burly painter was unknown beyond New York's 10th Street galleries, but in the decade before his death last year he earned worldwide recognition as a dynamo of abstract expressionism. Mostly on loan and rarely shown are 30 paintings, spanning his heyday, from 1952 to 1962, which provide in Kline's first New York posthumous show a survey of his black-and-white clashes as well as some uncharacteristic excursions in flamboyant color. Through...
Fiery Finish. During the heyday of abstract expressionism, Aronson's figurative works lost their audience Meanwhile he delved into the occult Cabalistic thought of the late-medieval European Jews, who saw nature as a deceptive cloak thrown over man's divine essence. Aronson's new subjects included the golem, or automaton, brought to life by magic and capable of either good or evil. Another was the dybbuk, a wicked spirit that can only be exorcised (usually through the small toe) by a wonder-working rabbi...
Married since 1958, Stars Newman and Woodward here celebrate their fifth picture together. They are an attractive and talented pair, but the Lunts in their heyday could not have saved this one. So many men's-room jokes to memorize. So many interludes of leaden-footed fantasy to plod through. If A New Kind of Love didn't take the magic out of their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Newman are odds-on to become the sweetest little old couple in Hollywood...
Time was when the bank robber was the prince of professional criminals. But nowadays, it seems, the rankest amateurs can knock over a bank-and a remarkable number of them are trying it. In 1932, the bank-heisting heyday of John Dillinger and his ilk, there were only 606 bank robberies in the U.S. Last year the FBI reported a record number of 1,250, and the pace is even faster...