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...last patriarchs of abstract expressionism, moved out of Manhattan to live and work near East Hampton, among the flat green potato fields and salty inlets of Long Island. This span of time was for him, in the jargon of art history, a "period." His manner of painting changed, becoming looser, splashier, more atmospheric than it had ever been before. The drawing loosened too, and the place supplied him with a different subject matter-a landscape of dunes and water reflections, green groves and pink bodies half eroded by light, full of softness and coarse sexual ebullience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Softer De Koonings | 3/6/1978 | See Source »

...writing his more serious things. The last one we did, Murder By Death, was very successful, but it had its limitation. Concepts for Neil come out of a basic locale, a central place that his characters are tied to. The Cheap Detective is no exception, but it's a looser and much better script than Murder, and a much better movie. There were 11 names above the title in Murder; here there are 16. Cheap Detective largely shoots off The Maltese Falcon, Casablanca, To Have and Have Not, and Chinatown. Peter Falk is sensational...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: On Making A Play | 2/2/1978 | See Source »

...modern church, the absurdities of "making it," celebrities as praise junkies, fake humility as an asset, indeed turning anything into an asset. Chatworth even considers publishing his confessional tape to "launch that new career as Mr. Honesty." The novel is a promising departure for Sheed too. It is much looser and more vigorously humorous than his previous fiction. As a parody of personality packaging and what happens when the package is unbundled, Chatworth may be, as the author says, "desolately cute." But his confusions raise an unsettling question: Did he sell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Celebrity and Its Discontents | 1/2/1978 | See Source »

Free wine flowed at intermission, though, and a more relaxed cast returned with a very funny tongue-in-cheek parody, "Raining in My Heart," from Dames at Sea. The second half of the show is much looser and livelier and the peak of the evening is "Tap Your Troubles Away," which really might convince you to exuberantly thrash your woes with a pair of tap shoes...

Author: By Anthony Y. Strike, | Title: Anything Goes | 12/8/1977 | See Source »

...conference committees that are trying to resolve differences between the House and Senate on an energy program. The sessions are expected to go on for about a month. Last week the conferees accepted stricter House standards that require large new industrial plants to use coal instead of oil, but looser Senate standards on forcing existing plants to switch from gas to coal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Jimmy's Conciliatory Gestures | 11/21/1977 | See Source »

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