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...WEST: Washington State plans to buy a private collector's life mask of George Washington, one of three in existence, for about $375,000 and display it in the state capital, Olympia, by July 4, 1976. But most Bicentennial projects in the West are drawn from the region's own history and heritage. Alaskans are rebuilding the Tlingit and Haida tribal houses in Angoon and restoring a log headquarters built in 1793 by Russian fur traders in Kodiak. Hawaiians are constructing a 60-ft., double-hulled sailing canoe in which a crew of 24 will leave on April...
...mess, I prefer to live in the mess with the memories and the damage." In photographs of the artist in his studio, we see the most famous English painter of his generation lurking in his lair. The camera flattens the owl-like eyes and avian nose into the mask of a pudgy child surrounded by a volcanic sludge of rubbish: the walls daubed with paint, the tables and floor buried under a dune of exhausted tubes, boxes, crumpled photographs, muck. These, so to speak, are the lineaments of gratified desire. "I never believed one should have any security and never...
...death mask of Holmes, done by Mount Rushmore sculptor Gutzon Borglum, greets visitors as they enter the exhibit. This life-size stone mask has ghostly quality of authenticity, giving the impression of a slumbering Holmes presiding over the show...
...plane flight over from Paris. Everyone is sleeping in the half-lit cabin. Except Emmanuelle and craggy faced man sitting across the aisle. She gets up and gets a blanket. He looks over a few times She looks back. He can't believe it. His face is such a mask of dumb stupor that when he finally heaves out of his seat to cross the aisle it's too much, the audience began giggling at this point and didn't stop. The couple's writhing and gasping is intercut with shots of another man with a craggy face sitting behind...
...other side of Citizen Kane, this is Orson follow-up to it, and his second-greatest film. Done with the same crew, and the Mercury Theater. It doesn't get around very much, and really worth seeing. Also at the Welles the beginning of next week is The Mask of Dimitrios, reputedly a great thriller with Peter Lorre, from the story by Eric Ambler...