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...sentences reading "peak season fares are higher" will be added to the advertisement, Marshall Barret, an account executive for Wells, Rich, and Greene, TWA's national advertising firm, said yesterday...
...Cover: Illustration by Bob Peak...
Fortunately, the cast's energy and several outstanding principals protect Michael L. Blau's worthwhile producation. Eden Lee Murray does a remarkable job of building the character of Margo Channing even where the script is most bare. A star at the peak of her adult career, she is torn by suspicion and self-doubt, the products of fading youth. What emerges is a sensitive, mature woman equipped with an actress's command of gesture and expression. Murray handles her songs and dance routines with poise and vitality, but more important, never loses a grip on the character she has created...
...mechanisms (heart-lung machines, pacemakers, electric shock treatment) are capable in certain cases of indefinitely preserving breathing and heartbeat, doctors are being forced to turn to the brain for critical signs of death. But even more than recent technical interventions, Hendin claims, it was the surgical revolution--reaching its peak with the first heart transplants of the late sixties--that did the most to "blur the shadowy line between the quick and the dead." Until a modern, ethical, legal, medical and religious definition of the death concept is established, doctors will be unable to make vital decisions concerning treatment, preservation...
...their obviousness is not deceptive; it is just obvious. And Ramos, whose Batmen and Playboy Bunnies go as far as pop ever went in unctuous, opportunistic triviality, seems to be in the show merely to illustrate an amusing feedback loop between pop and commercial art. In 1962, at the peak of the Batman revival, Ramos got some mileage from painting the masked hero of Bob Kane's comic strip. Four years later, a Batman comic returned the compliment by illustrating a pop exhibition in the Gotham City museum; on the wall were paintings clearly meant to look like Ramos...