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Ignored or used as a sex pillow by her uptight husband, fed up with nights at the opera among his colleagues and days of packing trunks for his business trips, a '50s housewife lapses into reverie. In her mind and in apparent actuality on stage, she slips his embrace, walks to the mirror and sees another woman. They look, smile, touch and ultimately dance a stately, sensual ballroom swirl of self-discovery...
...shoplifters beware: sometimes the Coop is watching. "One day I walked right out with a light bulb and a pillow case," recalls the senior male. "These two scary guys came up and grabbed me and made me feel awful. Then I was put in jail and I had to promise I would never go to the Coop again...
However "inside" this sounds, the film's people are complex, attractive and familiar; they could be working at the next desk or sleeping on the next pillow. They can be loved and can betray almost simultaneously. Matt can be both timid ("I'm actually afraid of my own kid") and, when defending his craft against a studio creep, vindictive ("You know nothing but how to pose for this little picture of you that nobody is snapping"). The insecure mogul somehow appeals to the sensitive researcher ("I think it's so wonderful that you don't worry about even trying...
...years, Merrill has published almost no poetry: he has, instead, been writing A Different Person, a memoir of his postcollegiate years in postwar Europe. Digressions, meditations and flash-forward passages follow each of the new book's 21 chapters, intended, the poet says, as "reveries suitable for a pillow book, for gossip, for shoptalk...
...Royal Academy, it doesn't connect to a major "allover" painting by Pollock, because none could be borrowed. This problem repeats itself with other artists. Robert Rauschenberg's Canyon, 1959 -- that unforgettably poignant assemblage featuring a real, stuffed, blackened American eagle spreading its wings but equipped with a pillow in case it fails -- needed backing up with more powerful work than this show could obtain. And the hanging can be awful; if you want to see two groups of excellent paintings kill each other, take a look at the room in which Mark Rothko's horizontals and Barnett Newman...