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After the balanced sanity and insight of TIME'S survey of American painting [Dec. 24], the majority of prizewinners in the Chicago and Corcoran exhibits [Jan. 21] seem like the feckless choices of a madman. James Brooks's R-1953, which resembles nothing more than an imperfectly stained laboratory slide, cannot be interpreted as anything but a refined experiment in egomania. Lipton's The Cloak, even as a theme, could be more feelingly rendered by any class of fifth-graders. Glarner's Relational Painting Number 79 should be considered as an expression of pure design...
...some thought to be toppling, Nikita Khrushchev was in fine tippling form last week. Tossing off the vodka at New Year's Eve party, Khrushchev told all within hearing that Stalin, whom he had described as a murdering madman only eleven months ago, had in fact done so much good that his mistakes must be overlooked. Cried Nikita: "Stalin was a fighter of imperialists . . . Imperialists call us Stalinists . . . When it comes to fighting imperialists we are all Stalinists...
Sailor on Horseback. He wrote continuously and like a madman, with the lack of self-criticism of the self-educated. Yet he was a generous man of near-genius. He had the kind of gallant foolishness that he himself perfectly summed up by describing himself as a "sailor on horseback"-a quality both lovable and exasperating. He called himself a socialist (though no known socialist state would have given him leg room). When his books did well, he built himself a thoroughly unsocialist, ranch-style castle in California's Valley of the Moon (it burned down before he could...
...times that Chapin had stabbed the baby sitter and the 23 times he had stabbed the child. "Imagine doing this 38 times," he said. "He slaughtered this little girl, he stabbed her, then the little boy, and then went back and stabbed her again. He certainly acted like a madman that night." To Wertham there was no doubt that Chapin had suffered, at the time of the crime, from schizophrenia -"a malignant disease, the cancer of the mind"-and that he had not known the meaning of what he was doing...
Skipping without explanation from the institution to the village, the movie shows the adventures of a madman in the distorted way a madman might see them. The adventures are not explained but only magnified for the expressionist settings in which the material things are emotional adornments, parts of a state of mind. Cesare's body leans with the lean of a crooked chimney, Caligari appears to grow out of his tent. The wild windows like kites, roofs that look like knives, and the black and white strips across the institution's floor reinforce the uneasiness. But these devices, like...