Word: seenes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...remember who is sleeping with whom except by drawing a chart. (The generous explanation is that this is not due to the author's lack of craftsmanship, but rather that it represents a deliberate attempt to show the dreary interchangeability of the adulterers.) The novel is seen largely through Piet's intelligence and sensibilities. Most of the other male characters are unreal, merely equipped with identifying jobs and stigmata. Updike paints Foxy and Angela full-length and achieves an equal effect in far fewer brush strokes with Marcia and Janet, two of the husband swappers. The trouble...
...Yorker. "He thought he'd be only a humorist," Mary remembers. "He didn't think of himself as a serious writer." Yet he spent words profligately in an attempt to translate his painter's eye into language, to catch and fix the thing seen and bring all the colors and shapes and textures of the visible world to bear on his narrative. Novelist John Earth calls Updike the "Andrew Wyeth of literature," adding: "I think one has the same mixture of admiration and reservation for the work of both...
Twelve years have passed, and though Youngerman has undoubtedly seen as much Manhattan smog as blinding sunlight in that time, he has progressed steadily toward realizing his Middle East-inspired ideals of clarity and voluptuousness in paint. The measure of his success may be taken from the 45 ink-and-acrylic paintings that go on view at Washington's Phillips gallery this week (see color opposite). His forms are abstract; but as the artist points out, the Arab also gilds his mosques and minarets with nonrepresentational decoration. Over the years, Youngerman has consistently enlarged, unloosed and simplified...
Vanishing Surplus. Martin barely hinted at another reason for the Reserve Board's new tightening of the monetary brakes. So far this year, the traditional surplus of American exports over imports has melted to "virtually no surplus at all." According to insiders who have seen preliminary estimates, the first-quarter trade figures due to be announced this week are so discouraging that they might even have started another run on the dollar had the Fed not acted when...
...their dancing is not American, much of their choreography is: there are 21 U.S.-created ballets in the theater's repertory, some never before seen in this country. One of the best is Job Sanders' Impressions, which uses Paul Klee paintings as "points of departure" for seven vignettes (set to music by American Composer Gunther Schuller) that capture both the painter's economy and his wit. There is sexy balletic humor in a spoof of Arab amour that features sinuous ballerina Willy de la Bije as the most languid odalisque ever to scratch herself where it itches...