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...alive! I tell you, he is alive!" screams Giovanna (Sophia Loren). She is a woman with the exuberant breasts and thighs of a Gaston Lachaise statue, the eyes of a Modigliani portrait; perhaps that is why no one listens to her voice. Years ago, she and a soldier, Antonio (Marcello Mastroianni), were married. He was sent to the Russian front; she returned to her village. The war ended; Antonio was left behind on a frozen Russian landscape. Now there are gray spiderwebs in the luxuriant brown hair. In a dozen years Antonio has never written. Yet in Giovanna...
Later, in another room, Miss Bas Cohain began her presentation by reading a poem by Cummings. She then showed slides of paintings by Klee, Modigliani, Pollock, and various other modern artists, introducing them by saying simply that she liked them. The women in the audience sat silently in the dark, some smiling, some bewildered but receptive. Miss Bas-Cohain had said that she preferred not to explain what she was doing. She wanted to let the slides and the exhibit speak for themselves...
...same kind of confusion hits several other pieces. Chris Hart's "Jumping John" is a nice little parody of the modern-sordid school of writing, but like James Dickson's "The Modigliani Face," it relies for its humor on the dubious assumption that any real-life trend will be funny if exaggerated enough. Now that may be a sure-fire key to effective political satire (e.g. exaggerate the horrors of war and people will get fed up with it), but it doesn't always make for a good laugh. Dickson, by plugging in tidbits of humor-in-microcosm ("Brackley...worked...
...irony is that it is not necessary to buy photographic reproductions to get "serious" work for one's serious study. Originals can be bought and rented for very reasonable prices and are amazingly exciting to have. Etchings and engravings by Picasso, Modigliani, Manet, Chagall, etc., original works, can be bought for less than twenty dollars at Retina Gallery, Fabrications, and at Gropper Gallery along Mass. Ave., just to name a few. These are small works and may come at the end of fifty or even a hundred impressions. But they are the right size for small rooms and very satisfying...
...school, where they were seated across the table from each other, drawing each other's portrait. One boy had drawn the other with an extremely long neck. When the art teacher inquired about the trouble, the irate youngster asked, "Who in the hell does he think he is, Modigliani?" MARIE L. LARKIN Supervisor of Art Board of Education St. Louis