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PIET MONDRIAN-Frumkin, 32 East 57th. Mondrian depicted nature-before he stripped it to its bare essentials-in scenes of Dutch windmills, rivers and forests. These drawings and oils, done between 1905 and 1908, show keen insights and rhythmic vitality in a self-assured style, but offer little indication of the plastic purist he was to become (through May 23). For that, see "Mondrian, De Stijl and Their Impact," at Marlborough-Gerson, 41 East 57th, where his spatial austerity and its potential for beauty is fully realized in his own and in the works of 22 followers. Through...
...criticism, poetry or fiction cannot fail to be puzzled and dismayed by Flood. The inflated emotion, imprecise language and theatricality of situation that bubble up in Flood all but submerge Warren's virtues, which are considerable: a great talent for narrative and a sense of place as keen as an animal...
...bespectacled screech owl. Eisenhower was a pair of ears pierced by a disingenuous grin, and Kennedy-well, some semblance of Kennedy could always be drawn under that hummock of hair. To such lean and telling presidential portraiture, editorial cartoonists for the nation's newspapers bring a keen eye, a sharp pen and a drop or two of acid ink. Now they are honing their art on a new subject whose face might have been designed for their drawing boards. But how successfully have they captured Lyndon B. Johnson...
While her ear for dialogue is keen, her sense of direction falters. The various themes fail to fit together into a coherent fugue. Nonetheless, her characters are engaged in a sometimes sensitive search for meaning in their drab lives. Fred Willkie does a particularly fine job as Jake, a young garbage collector. Joel DeMott's performance as the waitress is fulled with nuance and her accent doesn't detract from her acting. Diane Kagan, who plays Gloria, one of the cooks, is less successful with the New York vulgar tongue, but Jaye Schulman as Lily, the other cook, is often...
...real behind-the-scenes story of those magazine glamour photographers and their buxomly beautiful models!" So read the notice under the marquee of the State Theatre on Washington Street. With our keen interest in photography, we hesitated, wondering whether to skip the merely entertaining Captain Newman for an educational look at Russ Meyer's (The Immoral Mr. Teas) latest masterpiece, Heavenly Bodies. When we noticed this was the film's first Boston showing and couldn't recall any criticism in the professional press, we decided that, as a service to the community, we had no choice but to duck...