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...James Rosenquist did a family portrait. In it, nothing shows of Scull but his legs and feet, next to a realistic taxicab with open door, and inside the cab, an upside-down closeup of Ethel being kissed on the nose by one of her children. "Not quite the Mona Lisa," says Scull...
FIRST INTERNATIONAL GIRLIE EXHIBIT-Pace, 9 West 57th. Fun and games pop out on the walls, making the Mona Lisa look like a sedate frump and some of Toulouse-Lautrec's old haunts seem like a meeting of mah-jongg players. Ben Johnson's voluptuaries are in the pink, Mel Ramos trots out jungle queens in tiger-skin bikinis, Marjorie Strider shows paintings that project into the 36-Dimension, and Herb Hazelton delights in garish girdles from the Sears, Roebuck catalogue. Andy Warhol's Blue Girlie (9 ft. by 6 ft.) has a room all to herself...
...fast-drying enamels, and aluminum paint to produce higher highlights than white could yield. He hit upon the idea that the paint could be the image, not just serve as its representative. He rejected the notion that paintings should have visual climaxes that smack the eye-such as a Mona Lisa in the midst of a landscape -and instead made every square inch of his big works bear up under an equal pressure of paint...
...Mona who hits the skids. She soon turns up doing the tango in a purple brocade dress, and next time Stephen sees her she is an expectant mother whose life hangs on a delicate thread of Catholic dogma. To save Mona, doctors ask permission to perform a fetal craniotomy, crushing the infant's head. Fermoyle refuses, Mona dies in childbirth, and the baby grows up into a happy, well-adjusted niece, so that takes care of that...
...Director John Huston with a ripsnorting vitality that all but steals the show. Smoking an expensive cigar, raising the devil with a young curate, or getting riotously seasick en route to Rome, Huston is superb. He wangles a Vatican appointment for his bright young aide, but Fermoyle, inconsolable over Mona, gets a two-year leave from the priesthood. Such leave is rarely granted in fact, and even in the movie Fermoyle is still bound by vows of celibacy. While teaching in Vienna, he meets minx-eyed Fraulein Romy Schneider, who pledges herself to woo him away from God. He remains...