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...blown up out of proportion in deference to the man who is now the Great Big Skipper, and yakked up out of believability by miles of comic relief, it has become a wide-screen campaign poster. One merciful antidote: smiling Cliff Robertson has been allowed by Director Leslie Martinson to play Skipper Jack with vigor, not vigah; there isn't a single hand-stabbing J.F.K. mannerism in sight...
...museum's president, Joseph B. Martinson, retired head of the coffee firm and a collector himself, acknowledges that the boundaries of folk art are hard to define. The artists range from the greatly talented Edward Hicks to a legion of traveling painters who could turn out a portrait in less than an hour for the price of $2.92. The freshness of the art. in fact, stems largely from its variety and degrees of sophistication. A wooden Columbia, all star-spangled-bannered, is a wonderfully flamboyant bit of jingoism. A large copper...
Based on a "space cycle" by Swedish Poet Harry Martinson, Aniara proved to be a lengthy allegory about man's journey through life "in the spiritual void" that sucks him at last to his own destruction. The curtain rises on the interior of a spaceship dominated by the towering electronic brain, a mechanism so advanced that it is nearly human. Ranged in front of it as ghostlike silhouettes, the passengers chant a lament for the planet Doris (actually the Earth) they just left behind...
...LLOYD W. MARTINSON...
...plants, to be tall trees with eyes that could survey their surroundings and always be able to see and convince themselves that no one was coming, no one was going, no one could move; that all were lookout towers guarding the greatest security-that of absolute immobility." Martinson's tramps are mobile enough, and often provocative, and their wanderings, as recorded by Martinson, won the author election to the Swedish Academy after the book's publication in 1948. But as a novel, Martinson's Road has no crossroads of crisis and. like his tramps, no destination-except...