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Murdoch, 51, is best known in the U.S. for his raffish New York Post, a tabloid heavy on sex and crime that has almost doubled its circulation in six years to surpass the New York Times, 960,000 to 906,000. In London his Sun was the first daily to display a woman's bare breasts. Yet included among 100 other newspapers he owns around the world are the upper-brow Australian and the London Times. Says Murdoch: "The role of a newspaper is to inform, but in such a way that people...
This year's (or should one say this month's?) Alfred Hitchcock pastiche is of the sober rather than the raffish variety. It is intended not as a knockoff but as an hommage (the French pronunciation on that word, if you please) to the Old Master's late high style. The stars, Roy Scheider and Meryl Streep, are pleasing people; Nestor Almendros' carefully burnished cinematography imparts to Manhattan's streets a theatrically menacing glow that subtly transforms and romanticizes their mean reality. Writer-Director Benton, working from a story he and his onetime partner David...
...inventory of American slang now, however, can be somewhat disappointing. Slang today seems to lack the playful energy and defiant self-confidence that can send language darting out to make raffish back-alley metaphorical connections and shrewdly teasing inductive games of synonym...
...multitudinous winners made Sunday night's endless Emmy Awards show even longer by thanking everyone except passersby. But they omitted gratitude to two raffish institutions that have boosted nearly every career in Tinseltown: the entertainment industry's West Coast-based daily newspapers, Daily Variety and the Hollywood Reporter. Vaunting oneself in "the trades"* is second nature throughout Hollywood. Says one major studio executive: "Ours is a business of hype." Scarcely a day goes by without an ad, a story or a skillfully planted gossip item about an overnight success, an out-of-town comeback, an agent...
...subjects with an exacting realism and directness, to drive the mincing preciosity of late mannerism out of art-such were the aims of French Caravaggisti like Valentin de Boulogne (1591-1632), whose Fortune Teller raises narrative to a pitch of ironic theater worthy of Caravaggio himself. It is a raffish image of tavern survival: the old circular comedy, as the gypsy woman bilks a credulous soldier while a man steals her chicken and a little girl lifts the thief's purse...