Word: oddness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TIME'S cover picture of Jeanne Moreau [March 5] exemplifies the gulf between some art and people. My wife and I are qualified to judge a portrait by 40-odd years of sympathetic observance of the Western world, and to us the haunted ghost on the cover bears no relation to the womanly artist glimpsed in the photos and the warm person who certainly comes through in the text. Knowledgeable as some of your readers may be in the language of modern art, they are simply too few to justify TIME'S addressing them...
...those ever-patient people in the box-office line, one thing is as sure as waiting for the tickets. When they do get in to see The Odd Couple, they'll live laughing...
...Odd Couple is an evening of group hysteria, induced by Playwright Neil ("Doc") Simon, Director Mike Nichols and two greatly gifted actors of atrabilious hilarity, Walter Matthau and Art Carney. The only worry they leave in a playgoer's head is how to catch his breath between laughs...
...Mike Nichols touch, always deft, daft and droll, flicks The Odd Couple along at a dervish's pace. But it is Neil Simon's comic freshness of vision that provides the inner momentum. Simon rarely tosses a line straight up in the air for an isolated gag; he hits it across a net of personal relationships so that a steady volley of wit builds up out of character and situation. Simon also knows how to prod a cliché off its bed of banality so that it walks toward the brink of logical absurdity. "Who'd send...
...this she cannot permit. A mature woman, she senses, cannot belong to anyone except herself. She therefore abandons both men, goes off to Spain to live alone in a rehabilitated villa-and apparently likes it. "It was rumored that she walked alone on the beach, at odd hours, just after dawn, just before nightfall." The neighbors could not understand why she did not marry...