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...ASIDE from isolated scenes, the film is so dishonest and uninteresting that all the talk which builds it up as an unprecedented masterwork will probably leave you embittered -- especially if you shell out UA's asking-price at $4.50 a look. There is no story: the characters' lives are composed of sensationalistic incidents, and the motives for the way they live are never developed or explained. At film's beginning, Paul, the American expatriate, is just a ravaged romantic, and at the end he is a dead one. Jeanne, a babied product of the Parisian middle-class, is throughout nothing...
...perfectly specious and contradictory." The Rousseau, he adds, "was of no importance to us" (although the Met owns only one other). This is not a view shared by most art experts or by Marlborough's senior partner, Frank Lloyd, who says, "In my opinion, it's a masterwork." Hoving defends the disputed sale in terms of the need to trim redundancies from the collection...
...almost 2,500 years later, archaeologists have recovered what may well be long-lost samples of that buried treasure: two remarkably beautiful and well-preserved statues of a young man (kouros in ancient Greek) and a maiden (kore), at least one of which is almost certainly a missing masterwork of the well-known 6th century B.C. sculptor Aristion...
Died. Jules Remains, 86, French epic novelist, dramatist and poet and founder of the philosophy of unanimism; in Paris. Though his massive output since the turn of the century included successful plays, philosophical essays and mildly erotic fiction, Romains' masterwork was his 27-volume historical novel, Les Hommes de Bonne Volonte (Men of Goodwill). Fifteen years in the writing, with a cast of over 400 characters, the work embodies Remains' unanimist philosophy that man can only be fully defined in the context of the religious, familial and social groups to which he belongs. After completing the final volumes...
Died. Herbert Feis, 78, economist, historian and Government adviser in the Hoover, Roosevelt and Truman Administrations; in Winter Park, Fla. Feis entered the State Department in 1931 as an economist, but his masterwork was a ten-volume history of American foreign policy from 1933 to the 1950s. Though some younger historians questioned the objectivity of a man so close to his topic, Feis' books were widely praised for their richness of detail and incisive presentation. His account of the Potsdam Conference, Between War and Peace, won a Pulitzer Prize...