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Blood-Pressure Gauge. Most obvious, says Dr. Bontzolakis, is anxiety accompanied by nervous tension. This may range from irrational fear, when confronted with something as objective as a photograph, to chronic delirium or schizophrenia. Then he often finds local itching which he attributes to allergic reactions with an emotional basis. Finally and more surprisingly: among Dr. Bontzolakis' patients, the higher the blood pressure, the greater the tendency to abstractionism...
This month Photographer Tsuchiya published his pictures. Samples: loinclothed priests playing mah-jongg instead of sitting in immobile meditation, a priest drinking with a bar hostess, two novices staggering along a Kobe street late at night with a barmaid between them. Tsuchiya quoted one priest as saying: "By listening to good music and gazing on ikibosatu [the living Buddha], I feel I can understand the teachings." This wisdom was Tsuchiya's caption for a photograph of the same priest happily gaping at pictures of virtually naked women...
...modern experts try to envelop their trade with the accouterments of more exact sciences, strive to test problematic works with a chemist's lofty calm. Some refuse to see the picture itself, arguing that an emotional response may confuse their judgment, and rely on analysis of paint and photographic blowups that show telltale idiosyncracies of style. Others claim such infallibility that they authenticate paintings just by inspecting a black-and-white photograph. Last week such arrogance was called to account...
...trial, Art Historian Réau admitted that he had authenticated a Fragonard on the basis of a photograph. This was current procedure, he pleaded. Snapped the public prosecutor: "When Réau and Cordovado betray their mission to protect the public, which is their moral duty, we have a twilight of the art critic gods...
...Bridge ("Her first name was India-she was never able to get used to it"), he uses a mannered but often effective device of 117 very short chapters, each concerned with a single episode, often a single glancing thought or aspiration. The reader, in effect, leafs through a verbal photograph album, ranging from an eleven-line snapshot of Mrs. Bridge finding her small son staring meditatively at the dressmaker's dummy of her figure (thereafter, she hides it in the attic) to a seven-page description of a country-club dinner that is as savagely tedious as anything...