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Heavy support for White from such officials as Senator Edward M. Kennedy '54, state treasurer Robert Q. Crane, Mayor Collins, Sears, and probably from Logue is expected to aid his campaign. But last night at a Harvard Young Democrats meeting, Sears warned against letting Mrs. Hicks portray herself as the underdog. "This could cause great harm," Sears said...
Pudding Faces. In an artistic sense, Master E.S. was handicapped. He knew nothing of the magical discoveries in perspective being made at the time in Florence by Piero della Francesca. His was strictly a two-dimensional world. As if straining to portray flesh-and-blood emotion, he gave his people big noses, pudding faces, puffy eyelids, and the result was often close to caricature. He himself was not capable of the profound humanity expressed by Flanders' Rogier van der Weyden, nor does his dry decorative line even suggest the sublimely anguished figures of his countrymen to come...
...choice of the instant in portraiture or in an urban world to find the mind of the artist shaping its material. The regularity of the natural stonework in "Grand Canvon" is like the automated regularity of the "San Francisco Bay Bridge from Yerbe Buen Island" (1953). Adams chooses to portray the bridge in a straightaway perspective with its vanishing point squarely centered: Beetle-like automobiles march toward infinity in formation, as do the landscapes achieve an effect perilously close to the Canyon's rocks...
...women. But after all this simply reverses the ancient practice, which allowed all-male casts only. A few of the big roles could have stood better acting; yet Jeannette Hume has a number of fine moments as Elektra. And it was a good idea for Elizabeth Scarff to portray Cassandra as insane, for this makes more credible the continued disbelief of all her auditors. I do wish something had been done about the actresses' accents: Attic Greek just does not mix with a Southern United States drawl...
...multiple-screen technique is a favorite of Expo's moviemakers. Great Britain's most important film, produced by James Archibald and directed by Donald Levy, is also shown on three screens, although here the trio frequently function independently. Only five minutes long, the movie attempts to portray the history of energy-first bursting from the sun, gradually disciplined and controlled by man. In fact, the film is little more than a series of violent images: arrows, acrobats, whirling lathes and ballet dancers, a time-lapse sunset, atomic explosions, water droplets in slow motion. Assaulted by three simultaneous images...