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Moravia has always been adept at manipulating literary conceits for startling effect. He once wrote a novel about a man who talked to his penis. An Italian Joan of Arc who hears the voice of nihilism calling her to action is a promising conception, and the author has not lost his admirable appetite for extremism in the defense of humanism...
...Train). Recall the crows gathering menacingly in a playground behind the unseeing Tippi Hedren in The Birds, or Jimmy Stewart wrestling with his fear in a church steeple in order to rescue his lost love at the end of Vertigo. There is Cary Grant climbing the stairs to bring Joan Fontaine a glass of milk?or is it poison??in Suspicion. There is sweet Uncle Charlie in Shadow of a Doubt musing about women in a small town kitchen as Hitchcock deftly uses light and a simple camera move to bring out the evil implications of his seemingly innocent speech...
...Others contend that she had at least for a moment eased the tensions between the U.S. and the militants by personalizing and depoliticizing the situation. Her younger sister, Judy Haessly, 34, takes a more down-to-earth view: "She's not a traitor, and she's not Joan of Arc. She's just a mother who wants to see her son." Said President Carter to Walter Cronkite after Mrs. Timm's trip: "My heart goes out to her. I have no intention of punishing...
...Joan Lamb, an SSS spokesman, said yesterday SSS officials are confident they have the subcommittee votes needed to approve the proposal...
...historians have never been comfortable with Joan Miró. A surrealist? The admirers of Dali or Magritte would not agree. An abstractionist? Miró says he never painted an abstraction in his life. Everything "is always a sign of something. It is always a man, a bird, or something else," he insists. The Miró admirers who have now mounted a selection of 45 of his paintings at Washington's Hirshhorn Museum have another proposition: Miró is simply a great painter. Says Hirshhorn Director Abram Lerner: "Miró's place is alongside the most fertile of those...