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...field-and a first-rate one-was a man who lived nearly 200 years earlier. Last week Jacques Callot's 18 etchings on The Miseries and Misfortunes of War were on display in Frankfurt, leading off an exhibition that bore the single-word title "Krieg." Goya was often lurid; Callot proves an exponent of unrelenting realism. Now honored as the "Father of French Etching," Callot was widely respected in his own day. Rembrandt owned a complete portfolio of his etchings, and some of Rembrandt's early work bears a strong resemblance to Callot's. Later, Hogarth...
...Dolce Vita (Fellini; Astor) is ambitious, sensational and controversial. Acclaimed in Europe as "the greatest Italian film ever made," it has also cooked up Italy's sizzlingest scandal since the lurid Wilma Montesi case. L'Osservatore Romano has damned it as "indecent" and "sacrilegious"; Communists have hailed it as an "unmasking of corrupt bourgeois society...
...published a review of Graham Greene's latest novel, A Burnt-Out Case, under the unsavory title, "Love Among the Lepers." As the person to whom the book is dedicated, I cannot but express my deep concern at your warped and lurid analysis of the novel. Since you agree that the theme of the novel does not center on the disease, you have deliberately and, in my estimation, shamefully exploited medieval attitudes to ward leprosy which render needless sensationalism. Graham Greene, as a novelist, has a right to choose whatever background he finds suitable to his writings, in this...
Taken as a case history of children warped by the self-indulgence of parents, The Watchman would seem like one of the more lurid chunks of a psychiatrist's notebook. But Grubb's debt to Freud is trifling compared with the grotesque vision of evil he has drawn from his imagination. As rape, adultery and warped fear of sex move through the book, tensions are set up. relaxed, and recharged right to the macabre ending. Sometimes Grubb's people speak and act with inspired sureness; at other times they simply deliver bombast. Few novelists overwrite so shamelessly...
...Great Impostor (Universal-International) is intended as an amiably wacky comedy of false pretenses. Adapted from Robert Crichton's bestselling biography, the picture dramatizes-and vulgarizes-a few of the more lurid episodes in the various and fascinating lives of Ferdinand Waldo Demara, the one-man Who's Who (TIME...