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Buddha died only 30 miles from Katmandu. So nearly all of Nepal's art is religious in subject matter, representing a jumbled pantheon of gods drawn from Hindu and Buddhist myths. Some of the art Professor Kramrisch dug out of muddy ditches; some she found in temples. Next week in Manhattan's Asia House, the world gets its first comprehensive look at the sculpture, paintings and manuscripts that she picked. Though the exhibition spans 15 centuries, the works are neither curios of folkways nor dusty museum pieces. They are living idols...
When I first looked at the program last night, I thought for a moment the Ivy League had revived Spring football. John Hoffman, Bill Grana, Tom Stephenson, Bob Stringer and John Hartranft populate my personal pantheon of grid heroes, not thespians...
...LOST SHORE by Anna Langfus. 254 pages. Pantheon...
With no femme fatale like Garbo, no woman with the animal splendors of the young Ava Gardner, Hollywood has completely lost its come-hither look, falling behind the competition from Europe, where Sophia Loren still unquestionably rules the pantheon. Around her, Bardot and Lollobrigida are fading. But Romy Schneider, Simone Signoret, Claudia Cardinale and Elke Sommer can each outsex all that the American industry has to offer. Hollywood is so barren of sex, in fact, that only last week Universal Pictures had to hold a beauty contest in New York's Americana Hotel in order to find three girls...
CHALLENGE TO AFFLUENCE by Gunnar Myrdal. 172 pages. Pantheon...