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...auto business, though still dominated by the U.S., has become so internationalized that there is an increasing interplay between markets. Hoping to gain both profit and prestige from the exchange, a U.S. automaker last week decided to sell one of its European-made cars in the U.S., while another U.S. company announced that it will build a car in England to race on the Continent...
...painting never shown before in the U.S. This year's choice is one of the great treasures of the Staatliche Museen in West Berlin: Albrecht Altdorfer's The Adoration of the Shepherds. Painted between 1518 and 1520, it is one of the finest specimens of the brilliant interplay of night and light at which this late-Renaissance German excelled. Through...
Wesker's chip is on his shoulder, and in heavier hands his play might have been doctrinaire agitprop-wash. It escapes that dreary fate, thanks to the playwright's good humor, dramatic interplay and irony, together with Director John Dexter's drillmasterly pacing. It is, in its own lingo, a scorching fine evening of theater...
...literary level, The Leopard offers a magnificent interplay of ironies. Sometimes the satire strikes at the right: in one stunning vignette, Director Visconti (who in private life is the Count of Modrone) executes a mortal lampoon of the old nobility. The Prince and his family, after a long and dusty journey, go straight to church, and there the camera finds them grey with dust and incense and fatigue, propped in their gloomy niches like medieval effigies, like spirits of the dead come back to haunt the living. Sometimes the laugh is on the Left: at the Ponteleone Ball, which fills...
...pedestrian ramp which passes through the center of the building appears in the designs which Le Corbusier submitted for the Palace of the Soviets in 1931, and was previously included in the Savoye Villa of Poissy, France. The interplay of levels which has come to characterize many of Le Corbusier's recent buildings is largely missing from the Visual Arts Center. The sculptured gracefulness of the Chapel of Ronchamp and the Phillips Pavilion of the Brussels World's Fair finds itself in an abbreviated form in the circular wings of the center and in a distant sort...