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Neckermann warmly acknowledges his debt to Sears, Roebuck and Montgomery Ward, and indeed his catalogue could almost serve for Sears. "We do belatedly what the Americans are doing," he says. But he has also been imaginative. This fall Neckermann is offering Scandinavian pastel mink coats for $1,175, much less than the usual price, has already sold "several thousand." Last year Neckermann established his own travel service, and it is already the biggest air-charter-tour outfit in West Germany. He is offering, for instance, 17 days in India for $400 tourist class and $635 for "special maharajah service...
True, from the start the Met trips over itself in rushing for grandeur. The facade, keystone to Lincoln Center's plaza, is immediately striking with its five soaring bays. But working with all their pastel might against the uplifting effect of stone and glass are two Chagall murals placed behind the tall windows. If you pasted the Last Judgment on the front of the Parthenon, it wouldn't do either one any good...
...none has attracted more attention than Watts, the symbol of hope and frustration for the metropolitan area's 650,000 Negroes. Watts (pop. 30,000) occupies a small part of a vast South Los Angeles Negro ghetto the size of Boston. Though its stucco homes and pastel-colored housing projects have a neat and ordered look that does not accord with the Eastern idea of slums, the Watts Negro feels even deeper frustration than Negroes elsewhere. Unemployment rates are high, fatherless homes are common, lawyers and doctors scarce. Served by a skeleton public transportation system and often unable...
...also had a small but genuine genius, which she poured into some of the best known children's books ever published. In The Tale of Peter Rabbit, one of the simplest, shortest and fastest-moving tales ever written, her pastel-tinted miscreant wiggled under a forbidden fence for a lawless day in Mr. McGregor's garden and wriggled forever into the lives of millions. That story was followed by a score of other children's books, tales of Squirrel Nut-kin, Jemima Puddle-Duck, Mrs. Tittle-mouse, Mr. Jeremy Fisher, and-generally recognized by Potter connoisseurs...
...dull going. Mostly, the air of mounting crisis is indicated by having the actors glare at one another. As the fugitive Ringo Kid, Alex Cord can barely squeak by in Wayne's roomy old boots. Cord looks bored, a reasonably sensible reaction to Ann-Margret's pastel flouncing in the painted-lady role defined for keeps by Claire Trevor. In case they don't know what they have missed, the cast ought to sit home some night and catch the real thing on the late show...