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High and Low. Japan's Akira Kurosawa is an eclectic film genius who has borrowed plots from such classic sources as Shakespeare, Gorky and the Hollywood western. This time, he takes a routine American thriller by Ed McBain (pseudonym for Evan Hunter, author of The Blackboard Jungle) and proves that he needs neither sex nor samurai to set the screen crackling with excitement. Basically hackneyed, and at times impausible, High and Low is a Kurosawa triumph of man over matter...
Galbraith apparently managed to fill his few dull moments in New Delhi by writing several satirical pieces for Esquire magazine under the pseudonym of Mark Epernay. Although many reliable sources indicate that the scholar-diplomat is indeed the man behind Epernay, Galbraith himself has never admitted any connection. "I have a rule about that," he explained. "I never comment on another author--no matter how good...
...busy are the emergency rooms, many physicians argue bitterly that they represent unfair competition. A physician writing in Medical Economics under the pseudonym of Roswell Porter complains that he has to serve three or four mornings a year in his hospitals emergency room. "Doctors on hospital staffs should refuse to be exploited any longer," he says. "We should agree to continue serving only . . true medical emergencies. Hospitals shouldn't be permitted, under the deception of maintaining an emergency room, to lie, cheat and falsify the truth to compete with private practitioners...
...exhibition includes 10 paintings, 12 watercolors and drawings, 55 prints, one tapestry, and a selection of books. It ranges from a 1920 still life, signed with the family name Jeanneret eight years before the architect adopted the pseudonym Le Corbusier, to the 1962 tapestry and includes his linear, brilliantly colored "Taureaux" painting...
...scope of the exhibition is defined by an early "Still Life," signed "Jeanneret" and dated 1920, eight year before the pseudonym of Le Corbusier appeared. Reflecting the Cubists' carefully controlled forms, precise edge and muted palette, this and other early works contrast markedly with the line ear, brilliantly colored Taureaux paintings of the 1950's. The most recent work displayed is an Aubusson tapestry "La licorne passe sur la men completed...