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...about this simple DeSica film about a man and his son and their search for a stolen bicycle--only the glow I was left with as I left the theater. Perhaps I'm getting my genres crossed, but this movie would seem to fall under the heading of "Italian realist film;" at any rate, the scenery is all real, the camerawork is underplayed and the construction is perfectly scaled. Charming may be the best adjective. But this is all far too vague for such a touchingly accessible film, so make a point of seeing it for yourself...
Tribe will also exhibit 22 of his paintings at the Law School next month. The paintings are "surrealist and hyper-realist," with "a somewhat photographic look," he said...
...advertising in Hawaii and Ohio, where a switch of some 18,000 votes would have given Ford a full term in the White House. In his defense, Baker claimed that the funds had been allocated to the state chairmen, who failed to use all of them. Still, a political realist, Baker dropped out of the race early last week. Said he: "I didn't have the fire in my gut to go through with...
...book's terms, the scheme seems justifiable. Harwar is strong, and though he is an alcoholic, he has been off the sauce for seven months. He stays sober for nearly two weeks more in San Francisco as he waits to wreck the vessel. But Hayden is a rueful realist, and the book's conclusion allows no romantic vengeance. The great, evil ship still floats, Harwar is stony drunk, and he and his dreams of social justice drift off on the tidal rip. John Skow
Died. William Cropper, 79, a leading artist of the social realist school; of heart disease; in Manhasset, N.Y. Gropper's cartoons and paintings savaged the privileged and the powerful; his capitalists looked bloated, his workers downtrodden. Though he was ostracized during the McCarthy era, his works hang in major museums and government buildings...