Word: lincoln
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...historicism,"-the rich, beautiful prose of corporate style, achieved with acres of white marble that somehow always ended up looking like plastic laminate. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art by William Pereira is an early Western example of the genre; its equivalent on the East Coast was Lincoln Center in Manhattan, a large, poor parody of Michelangelo's Campidoglio in Rome, designed by Wallace Harrison, Max Abramovitz and by Philip Johnson, whose building was the New York State Theater. All the historical allusions in this corporate style (and there were plenty of them) were seriously trotted forth...
Immediate exhumation carries certain risks, however. As McCutchen's Ike story shows, it is harder to do Eisenhower, say, than Abraham Lincoln. The film is supposedly taken from Kay Summersby's kiss-and-tell book about her wartime romance with the general, but there will be no kiss and very little tell in ABC'S version. "I've got to think about a very lovely woman who is the widow of the ex-President," McCutchen explains. "We'll leave it to the people who watch the show to make up their own minds...
...from the sample above: "Her first eight years in Washington." As if she had just spent eight years in elected office. Did she? My recollection is that she presided incompetently over a grandiose health plan that failed, and then did First Lady chores (changing all those sheets in the Lincoln bedroom) until forced to endure, in a stoic rage, the sleazy business her husband got into. In the nick of time, she moved to New York before the filing deadline...
Bacall's autobiographical voice is not so sultry, seductive or worldly. "I am in love with the Arch of Triumph-aside from the Lincoln Memorial, it is the most moving monument my heart has beat to ... We returned to Rome to prepare for our audience with the Pope. With my Jewish background, I was ill prepared ... Bogie, Ted Moore, the camera operator, the Captain and I went fishing on Lake Albert. I caught a five-pound Nile perch and threw it back, just loved catching...
...hopeful. The Australian Films Office has just opened in Beverly Hills, on the expectation that something like eight Australian movies will be released in the U.S. in the coming year. This week the A.F.O. is sponsoring a festival of Australian films, old and new, at New York's Lincoln Center. All this activity grew out of a remarkable government support program, which lets state agencies operate film commissions empowered to invest public money directly in private movie projects. A current government investment of around $10 million a year is the result of agitation by young people, mostly employed in television...