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Laurens was reserved but receptive to his colleagues' cubist ideas, soon began experimenting with painted geometric sculpture. Eventually the female superseded other subject matter. Since Laurens never used models, he was free to invent: an arm became a jai alai basket, limbs were omitted or dramatically extended. If his early cubist works were all angles, taut as strings, his later ones had the liquid rhythm of the sea. That breakthrough came in 1931, when Laurens visited the Mediterranean seacoast. From then on, his sculpture looked as if it had been tumbled in a million waves rather than shaped...
...jobbed by the New York Times for trying to do "serious drama criticism" during his brief tour there last year. By contrast, Benjamin DeMott attacks Kauffmann's most discussed criticism: the two articles he did for the Sunday Times accusing homosexual playwrights of always trying to"invent a two-sex version of the one-sex experience." As DeMott sees it, the homosexuals contribute a valid theatrical experience -"a steady consciousness of a dark side of love...
...other reason, it seems, than to run into an overblown Levantine (Orson Welles) and a flyblown white hunter (Hugh Griffith). In the end the sailor remains unfound. Perhaps, ventures Bannen, this romantic ideal never existed. "But if he didn't," allows Moreau. "we would have had to invent him." Translation: We all need our illusions no matter how false we know they are. After seeing Tony Richardson's most recent flopdoodles-Mademoiselle, The Loved One, and now Sailor-moviegoers may have a new illusion to foster: that the man who directed Tom Jones and Taste of Honey...
Still, the traditionalists demand scientific, rather than deductive, proof. And, in fact, there is a dearth of such experimentation on the Reading Dynamics techniques. Evelyn and her partisans claim that nobody has been able to invent a machine with enough range to test the super-reader. The college reading teachers say that nobody has asked them to build one. Neither side appears anxious to obtain indisputable truth. There is too much to lose. At this point, each has a vested interest in maintaining the status...
Concerning the validity of the Wood method, the only explanation of the increased speed is the greatly increased area of visual perception during fixation. On this point the traditionalists do not have to invent new tests. They can waive the results of scientific research which have proved the retina can bring only one inch of a printed line into clear focus...