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...most robust-looking character in the exhibition is Robert Arneson, 51, whose favorite subject is his own head, blown up to more than Roman proportions and subjected to various odd indignities. In Splat, 1978, it has taken a bucketful of liquid white clay full in the face, like a vaudevillian copping a pie; a disembodied brown finger wipes the gunk away from his right eye socket. Arneson's mocking self-monuments are carried through with vast gusto and panache, and his technical resources seem limitless; besides, his formal ambitions are clear enough, below the funky surface. Even...
...Some economists estimate that the I.R.A.s will lift the personal savings rate from its low average level of 5.5% in the past five years to 8% by 1984. If that happens, the U.S. will have a swifter flow of funds to finance the capital investment it needs to restore robust economic growth. -By Charles Alexander. Reported by Bernard Baumohl/New York and David Beckwith/Washington
Retailers, usually an outwardly optimistic lot, are guarded this year. Said Robert Mooney, corporate economist for New York City-based J.C. Penney, the third largest U.S. retailer, behind Sears and K mart: "It's going to be a fairly good Christmas, though not a robust one." Mooney foresees a sales increase, after inflation, of only 2.5% to 3% for the industry this year...
...follow Jack and fight him, to walk out of his life and fight to get back in, to be his and still be herself. Beatty, the master charmer, uses a torrent of words and his sweet-faced stare to persuade us that have Jack and his brand of robust idealism have meaning for a world-and a movie world-mired in cynicism and reaction. Beatty's soaring spirit infected the Reds crew, from Cinematographer Vittorio Storaro to Production Designer Richard Sylbert to Editors Dede Allen and Craig McKay. This is a young man's movie, vi tal, confident...
...high notes in the umpteenth position with more clarity and precision than the old master himself (Kreisler had to be a genius to be able to make millions of his concerts and records and manage to get away with an hour's practicing once a month). Shlomo's earthy, robust tone enlivens every phrase in these three pieces...