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DIED. Harold D. Lasswell, 76, social scientist who applied the principles of psychology to the study of politics; in New York City. Having undergone psychoanalysis, Lasswell used Freudian insights to analyze the interplay of power and personality. A professor at the University of Chicago and later at Yale Law School, he wrote numerous books, including Politics: Who Gets What, When...
...selection of shots shows proficiency but a similar lack of excitement. De Broca's direction, however, more than makes up for the everyday technical side of his film. He knows how to get the most out of a comic situation, and fortunately for this film, he can interplay a mediocre mystery with his major plot, as he did so well with Jean-Paul Belmondo in That Man From...
Throughout this long, vivid saga, Novelist Carroll thoroughly exploits the Ragtime device-an interplay of historical figures with fictional characters. The portraits of the authentic personae are intriguing, but the question recurs: Are they real? Bobby Kennedy blackmails Brady's son into planting a bug in Anselmo's office. Young Brady protests that "it's not legal." Replies the Attorney General...
...eminent in English 18th and 19th century literary studies, and so, "to have the paintings and the rest of the collection at Yale made more sense." The center's first director, Jules Prown, chose as architect Louis Kahn, whose strong-thewed volumes and subtle sense of the interplay of light and material had already produced the best new museum building in America−the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, opened in 1972. Kahn accepted the job and designed a four-story box, dedicated to light: a building without gimmicks or stylistic narcissism, low-keyed but explicit, whose pale...
...Twilight Figures" by Jeanette Fintz, uses unusual tones, and emphasizes tension, rather than respectful interplay of human figures. No figure faces any other in this work; the elements in the painting are held together by the boundaries of the canvas and the consistency of pigment...