Word: lensed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Occasionally Levron seems to suffer from biographer's lens, a distorting disability that makes the writer's subject loom through history at elephant size while other personages appear as ants. Describing the Seven Years' War, in which Austria and France were eventu ally drubbed by England and...
Earlier, he had climbed high to the top of the Capitol rotunda, and hung over the banister, to photograph the guard of honor around the casket. But his most memorable shot-among four pages of color in this issue-was taken at the grave at Arlington. There, from about 150...
ANIMALS IN AFRICA by Peter and Philippa Scott. 166 pages. Clarkson N. Potter. $12.50, and ANIMAL WORLDS by Marston Bates. 316 pages. Random House. $15. These volumes provide the armchair naturalist with some of the year's best animal photographs and the best substitute for a safari he is...
BEN SHAHN: PAINTINGS and BEN SHAHN: HIS GRAPHIC ART edited by James Thrall Soby. 2 volumes; 286 pages. Braziller. $25. With 96 reproductions of Shahn's paintings and more than a hundred reproductions of his drawings, the disturbing power of Shahn's lonely visions is apparent-in wiry...
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World adds up to 3 i hours of relentless overstatement. Producer-Director Stanley Kramer, a man for the big promise, conceived "a comedy to end all comedies." What has evolved after several years of preparation is $9,400,000 worth of unpalatable...