Word: odd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...uses a bare stage, his production is spotted with stage-waits. These will certainly speed up as the run goes on, but even short blackouts make the play a pile of disparate scenes, instead of an unbroken continuity of swiftly-changing action. Mr. Seltzer's blocking has some odd lapses, and falls apart entirely at the end. These final scenes also expose most pitilessly the limitations of his actors, and the concluding Battle of Shrewsbury is the soggiest and most lacklustre carnage ever to empurple the tented fields of Cambridge. Through it all, however, wanders the stubby, stubborn figure...
...Minneapolis' Walker Art Center last week was a brilliant and very odd exhibition of pictures by Attilio Salemme, who died four years ago at 43. Before he died, Salemme had shaped to near perfection a wholly personal idiom. His retrospective show, which originated at Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art and will move to Manhattan's Whitney Museum later this month, proved Salemme to have been sad and chill, yet magical, and a colorist of weird subtlety...
...odd thing about Salemme's art is that it appears to be abstract and is not. He was a figurative painter, working with multihued geometric figures of his own invention and picturing them, precisely arranged, on vacuum-cleaned stage sets. His figures seem about to spring into action, like the Tin Woodman of Oz. They could not look more mute; yet they speak of the human condition. Vintage of Uncertainties cruelly evokes the uncertain aspects of motherhood. The Oracle delicately poses a horrendous question: Which is the Oracle? Who is to be believed...
Just as remarkable, Romney has proved a powerful competitor not only against the Big Three but against a flood of small imported cars, whose chief selling point is even lower cost and greater economy than the Rambler. This year the 60-odd foreign cars coming into the U.S. are expected to account for 560,000 units, or more than 10% of the U.S. market. But Rambler's sales have risen faster than any of the imports...
What atrocities they have not committed on history, Writers Norman Corwin and Giorgio Prosperi have dealt out to the script. Neither evidently thought that an account of the Goya-Alba romance need include mention of her husband, or of Goya's wife and 20-odd children. The characters that do manage to squeeze into the script get lines so cliché-ridden that even the Count of Monte Cristo would wince ("I'll teach her who's the Queen of Spain!" cries the Queen of Spain). Actor Franciosa brings a certain expression to the role of Goya...