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...those easy, slick judgments about their characters. Limiting their own role to descriptions and an occasional musing, they allow the people they present to speak for themselves and about each other, using excerpts from interviews. The reader's view is manipulated subtly, by juxtaposition and choice of adjectives--a pleasant change from Decter's brand of opinionated aggressiveness. The subtlety isn't constant, though; every once in a while they throw in a summing-it-all-up pronouncement that detracts from their overall accomplishment. In the profile of Lisa Menzies, whose high school reputation as fast seems well-deserved...
Cambridge's galleries are putting together a few things. Art-Asia, which lent some pleasant Japanese prints to Baker Library, has Tatsuko Shimoka's pottery at the gallery, 49 Palmer St. and BAAK, on Church St., opens an exhibit of the recent paintings and sculpture of Albert Alcalay (who teaches...
...question "stupid," the interviewer laughingly concedes that it is and moves on to something else. It seems an interviewer has one of two choices in dealing with Brando; either ask the typical questions and be met with icy contempt, or allow the talk to play itself out on a pleasant but superficial level. The interview format simply cannot contain the full sensuousness of Brando's character...
...debates is not Gerald Ford. It's Jimmy Carter. I can't imagine Jimmy debating Ford and people not thinking, as a result, that Carter is a pretty bright guy. A lot of people don't know if he's bright or not. They just know that he's pleasant and seems nice and honest...
...Pleasant Dreams. Bourjaily recounts these nervous preparations with the expertise of one who has been through them. Unfortunately, he also includes the whole libretto of $4000. Since he wrote it, his fondness for the piece is forgivable. But his tearjerker about a Southern construction crew does not sing on the page. Bourjaily lovingly describes the eventual performance as a smash success; yet it is impossible to imagine how a "solid, bass boom" of a voice could save the line: "I'll see you in the morning, Buster. Pleasant dreams...