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From the earliest work, Florentine Bernardo Daddi's 14th-century twin-panel altarpiece of Virgin and Child and The Last Judgment, to the latest, a 1948 still life by Matisse, there is hardly a masterwork that reflects turbulent emotions Enthusiasm there is, such as in Degas' pastel Singer with a Glove, but most portrait subjects are caught in repose: Manet's pipe-puffing Smoker, Tintoretto's velvet-clad, regal Venetian Senator, Joos van Clève's Mater Dolorosa...
BRATTLE: IKIRU ("To Live."), Akira Kurosawa's masterwork, is really two movies--the same one twice. This beautifully photographed and acted story of the tribulations of a dying civil servant is excellent film-making the first time through; repetition, however, blunts the effect. Undoubtedly the best foreign movie of 1960, nonetheless. Evngs...
TIME readers and their friends who may be in New York over the Easter holidays are especially welcome to come and see this illumination of a Renaissance masterwork. The exhibition is open through April...
Matter of Timing. The operation was a masterwork of organization. By 3:30 a.m., army, navy and air units, backed by tanks, held all key points. In all Turkey only one man was killed-an army lieutenant who was shot when an excited cop pulled a gun as the officer entered an Ankara post office. Officers found President Celal Bayar (who recently told a Western diplomat: "We are going to crush opposition") at his palace. Bayar flourished a pistol and his daughter threw a kitchen knife at the officers before they could hustle him off to "protective custody...
Ikiru (Japanese) is perhaps the finest achievement of Director Akira (Rashomon) Kurosawa, a masterwork of burning social conscience and hard-eyed psychological realism...