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This is the kind of material that a good director can give us in the wink of a panning camera's eye. Fred Zinnemann, happily shifting down from the upper-middlebrow range of A Man for All Seasons and Behold a Pale Horse, is a good director. A onetime film editor, he is a master of the short cuts that are the shortcut to supplying lots of information effortlessly. He is also a master of camera placement, a man who can give us the essence of a scene in one elegant, yet self-effacing setup. As a result, what...
Shortly after acquiring Saturday Review in July 1971, Publishing Entrepreneurs Nicolas Charney and John Veronis unveiled a startling plan for revamping the amiable middlebrow weekly into four special-interest monthlies. Following the successful pattern they had established at Psychology Today, Charney and Veronis also inaugurated a cornucopia of Saturday Review spinoffs, including book publishing, a book club and the sale of records and assorted cultural artifacts. At one point they were even vending mail-order fruit cakes. The idea, which seemed highly plausible, was to amass a large magazine-subscription list and to sell these customers a variety of products...
Playboy, like the studs it celebrates, seems ever in its prime. Hugh Hefner's middlebrow melange of sex, pop sociology and fiction now sells nearly 7,000,000 copies a month, and sets new records for advertising revenue with almost every issue. This summer it spawned a German-language edition that is selling well...
...Wilbur, is as unassuming as its title would suggest. It sets forth a series of little mishaps, a quartet of marriages that have, however slightly, gone awry. Its characters are middle age and middle class. But in intention and effect the play itself is something more than middlebrow...
...than Parker Brothers. But all the divertissements rest upon a single process -the breakup of phenomena into categories. It has been so ever since Auguste Comte invented the "science" and divided human progress into three stages, theological, metaphysical and positive. In recent times, the games people played included Highbrow, Middlebrow, Lowbrow, U and non-U, Soul and no Soul. Now comes the first new pop-soc. parlor game of the '70s-Consciousness...