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This is the Depression as a dream - no breadlines, no sitdown strikes, no Dust Bowl. Cannery Row is visibly a movie set, splendidly designed by Rich ard MacDonald and photographed by Sven Nykvist a subtle shade away from the realistic. The burns and hookers who inhabit it are seen as sweet dreamers whose great preoccupation is bringing together Doc (Nick Nolte), a sometime baseball pitcher, and Suzy (Debra Winger), a reluctant "floozy" who talks tough but is as lost in fantasy as everyone else...
...result is both a masterpiece of museological taste and a tour de force of cultural displacement. The New Hebrides slitgongs and the row of towering, slender Asmat mbis totems, some of them 21 ft. tall, seem to inhabit a world of pure form, primitive Apollonianism heavily inflected by Roger Fry. Even the crust of old blackened blood left by ritual libations on some of the African idols is politely referred to, on the museum's labels, as "sacrificial material...
Sugar and spice and every known vice-that's what Beth Henley's plays are made of. The Delta ladies who inhabit Henley's comic universe can be found a few miles south of Jackson, Miss., and just this side of Bananas. There is Babe Botrelle, whose Crimes of the Heart are to shoot her piggish husband (because "I just didn't like his looks") and to keep close company with a 15-year-old black boy. Popeye Jackson, from The Miss Firecracker Contest, knits tiny jumpsuits for frogs and "can hear voices through my eyes...
Painter Tom Wesselmann, like de Kooning before him, has refused to choose sides in the controversy between abstract expressionism and the new realism. Instead, his female nudes, often in monumental proportions, inhabit both schools. The results of his energetic production are collected in the 200 pictures-100 in high-intensity color-in Tom Wesselmann (Abbeville; 321 pages; $75). The artist's huge women are usually blank idealizations adrift in mundane rooms, like the fantasies of adolescent boys. Others display explicit but deadpan eroticism among billboard-style oranges and ashtrays. Always provocative, usually amusing and sometimes shocking, Wesselmann...
...roost on the bookcase, snooze in the laundry basket. They also occupy the dining room table, and the childless Milsters no longer eat there. Litter pans crowd the walls, the halls and the corners. Food and water bowls are set out in odd places. Cats suffering from infectious diseases inhabit the kitchen. A dozen of the menagerie are cripples, three are one-eyed, one is a dwarf, and one has been classified as a homosexual. Many of the stragglers are brought in by neighborhood youngsters who have heard about the Milsters' cat colony. The cats' names are chosen...