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By the age of 25 Picasso was an able and gifted artist, but not yet a modern one. He had managed to tame the mannerism of the Blue Period, with its wistful elongations and neurotic passivity of form, by studying Degas. In the Woman with a Fan, 1905, with its...
According to many psychotherapists, the nation's economic woes are beginning to have a heavy impact on their practice. One common report: the pressures of inflation are sending many marginally stable patients over the brink. Says Alan Gruber, a psychologist at Social Counselling Associates in Hanover, Mass.: "The people...
This is the most piquant of the family plays, an agile display of comic irony and sociocultural observation. It takes place on a California patio, that never-ever land. It includes a middle-aged husband whose wife has been made desolate by his supposed philandering. Actually, the poor devil has...
Brickman is fortunate to have the talented Arkin and his cohorts in this movie. Austin Pendleton as the playful, Machiavellian Becker, and Fred Gwynne '51 as an oafish Pentagon general are particularly effective in their roles, and Madeleine Kahn, though not blessed with a very demanding part, provides some of...
In Shepherd Mead's satire How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, officeworkers are so committed to devious little games and personality conflicts that everyone seems to have forgotten what it is that the company produces and sells. In fact, a good deal of fiction has depicted the...