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...really determine whether Love Story has saturated the lovestory market. If not, Abelard & Heloise may glow at the box office despite its sallow dramatic complexion. "Inspired" by Helen Waddell's novel Peter Abelard, and the love letters of Heloise and Abelard, the play actually belongs in the company of operettas, historical romances and three-handkerchief movies. Critical duty virtually stops there; the people who like this sort of thing do so invariably, and the people...
...England. Gwen lipsticks ($2.50) are naturally colored with extracts of carrots, beets, eggplant, raspberries and blueberries; her face powder is a translucent blend of rice and corn. Of particular benefit to smog-bound skins are the natural-enzyme creams ($6) that "literally digest pollution" by dissolving toxic oils. Sallow, freckled or fading complexions are promised brighter days with Lights Up, a lotion of organic cucumbers and lemons...
Immanent Abstraction. "I don't create women," he once snapped at a critic. "I paint pictures." It sounded like an aphorism. What it meant to Matisse is suggested by his very early (1896), very realistic portrait of a Breton girl. She is subdued, even sallow, but curiously taking: look carefully at the painting, then look away, and all that remains in the mind is the simple shape of face, with eyes and mouth burned in. The human, for Matisse, could be contorted, abstracted, reduced to geometry and architecture and decoration, but without losing particularity. When Matisse succeeded, his human...
...offspring of Principato's union with Cynthia have "sallow skins and strange russet-colored hair" and answer to the jig-prompting names of Terrance, Sean. Noreen. Aloysius and Kathleen. To their Italian fathers dismay, they avoid the sun like moles, playing sourly in the shade or roaming dark hallways. Principato blunders through eleven years among this dreadful crew until his father, dying of cancer, announces that he will not mend his 35-year rift with Holy Mother Church and, far more shocking, intends to be cremated. The scandalized Corrigans mount a frenzied campaign to scoop old Principato into...
...trap? Simple: by telling Toni that he is already bridled with a wife and saddled with three children. Suspicious, the mistress demands to see the wife. Winston persuades his spinster nurse, Stephanie Dickinson (Ingrid Bergman), to pose as Mrs. Dentist. Byzantine complications add a flush to Stephanie's sallow countenance, but the complications are purely formal. Once Bergman zeroes in on a male lead, the light comedienne should pack her gags and go home...