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Latin American fiction periodically ar rives like an out-of-touch cousin on a vacation trip. In the voice of translation, it speaks of strong family resemblances: realism, surrealism, stream of conscious ness, political protest and satire. The visitor is wined, dined, praised for its variety and daring. Then, with a hearty abrazo, Latin American fiction departs and North Americans go back to what they like to read best: costumed romance and novelized journalism...
...neatly arranged around the sides of the set; by shooting rooms up from the floor and down from the ceiling Lumet adds a closed-in effect that verges on the claustrophobic. This may be intentional--a kind of tribute to the play within a play within a play-ness of the plot. But this Deathtrap is also a play within a play within a movie, and staginess just doesn't look right...
...responsibility of the University to fund the Foundation seems a subject of some contention. John B. Fox, dean of students, says the Foundation should raise a large part of its funds by itself. "In a way," Fox says, "one test of the effective ness of the program is the willingness of people outside the University to fund it." But others seem to feel that the University's financial commitment to the Foundation should be stronger. Gomes, who now chairs the Foundation's Faculty Committee, says an "extraordinary effort is necessary" to raise outside funds, because the traditionally generous alumni sources...
...with it. "Roosevelt weather" was the envious politician's term for the fact that the sun always seemed to come out when F.D.R. was scheduled to speak. Roosevelt was superstitious and avoided 13 at dinner, but he knew perfectly well that "luck" is mainly a matter of shrewd ness and timing. Characteristically, he was an expert at seven-card stud poker, with one-eyed face cards wild...
...service to idolize him. This point is that he grasped his limitations and refused to mannerize them. Thus he was by no means a natural draftsman, and his best paintings of the early '40s, like the She-Wolf or Male and Female, are set down with terrible earnest ness but with no graphic facility. When he set up a repeated frieze of drawn motifs, as in the mural he did for Peggy Guggenheim in 1943, the result-as drawing-was rather monotonous. But when he found he could throw lines of paint in the air, the laws of energy...