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Motherwell's best work shows us that conciseness, grace, passion and lucidity are still the paramount virtues of the art of painting...
...sooner does a generation unlearn a racial epithet than the stigma loses its sting. Consider, for example, the burgeoning controversy over the title of a new Western film. The Legend of Nigger Charley. Paramount released the movie with the "historical explanation" that the character of Nigger Charley was based on black cowboys who roamed the West after the Civil War -a period in which the term was in common currency and not necessarily derogative. But Charley's well-documented credentials failed to satisfy a number of newspaper, television and radio advertising executives. For example, the Oregonian first changed...
...word nigger to white people," he says, "but blacks don't have the same reaction to it any more. Changing the name just reflects the insecurity and guilt of some whites who think the niggers in their town will be offended and throw rocks at the theaters." Paramount Vice President Charles Glenn adds: "I wonder what the media would call a film of Joseph Conrad's The Niggers of the Narcissus...
...studio of Kaiser Broadcasting's Detroit office, even the klieg lights were filtered in the national colors. But the crowd that settled into chairs before the speaker's platform were not prospective voters, or delegates, but candidates. They had come for a seminar on a topic of paramount importance to each of them: how, in the era of instant communication, to use television, radio and print to get themselves elected...
...moneymaker is Associates Corp. of North America, a finance and insurance subsidiary that brings in some 47% of the profits. Like other conglomerates, G. & W. in the past propped up reported profits by taking advantage of liberal accounting rules. For example, in 1967-68 G. & W. sold many of Paramount's old films and recorded earnings from the deal as straight operating profits, instead of nonrecurring gains. But G. & W. has not made such sales lately, and outside accountants who have read its recent financial statements say that the "quality" of its earnings is higher than in past years...