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Boccaccio '70 (RCA Victor). The sinewy music written by Composers Nino Rota and Armando Trovajoli for the celebrated Italian peep show. In its several parts it manages to combine French swagger with Latin languor-an accomplishment that puts it several notches ahead of mail-order Hollywood prescriptions...
...however A. His illustration includes one of the key "Wake Up the Grader" phrases--"It is absurd." What force! What gall! What fun! "Ridiculous," "hopeless," "nonsense," on the one hand; "doubtless," "obvious," unquestionable" on the other, will have the same effect. A hint of nostalgic, anti-academic languor at this stage as well may well match the grader's own mood: "It seems more than obvious to one entangled in the petty quibbles of contemporary. Medievalists--at times, indeed, approaching the ludicrous--that, smile as we may at its follies, or denounce its barbarities, the truly monumental achievements...
...send their photographers to faraway places. But TIME's purpose is different from most: it seeks to add a new dimension to news coverage by the use of color. Thus TIME's eight pages of color in August on Southeast Asia showed the look - the beauty, the languor, the hardships, the progress - of a place that has become a cold war battleground. And the narrow alleys of the Casbah and the modern technological city of Colomb-Bechar (the Cape Canaveral of the Sahara), as shown in eight pages of color on Algeria last April, coincided with the news...
...David Susskind, successful producer of safe-at-home TV classics and voluble critic of TV's lack of daring, has been, to use his favorite verb, denigrating Hollywood for years. "Hollywood has an advanced case of intellectual leprosy." he says. "It is sterile and bland. a place of languor and procrastination, of overwhelming provincialism." Hollywood's responses are equally engaging. "Susskind." says Oscar Levant, "is salami dipped in chicken fat." Yet there was Susskind. out in the Hollywood provinces last week, and not just to carry the battle to the enemy's home ground. He was there...
Down & Out. He was perfect for his period-a handsome, somewhat dandyish man who was given to fits of black melancholy, complained of "constitutional languor," suffered from compulsive extravagance. The Duchess of Devonshire was his patron, David Garrick encouraged him. King George III appointed him to the lucrative post of Painter in Ordinary...