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...term in vogue today"--as "realistic", and to assert that they "follow all the conventions of that school". By now, we might guess that the sly master of fiction is pulling our leg. It would not be unlike Borges to lead us up another erudite blind alley, casting a shade of doubt on his own self-explanation...
...which is -if such a combination can be imagined-both bland and maniacal. Hockney's enormous Still Life (Glass Table), 1972, is played down almost to silence; none of the spidery, wandering and quirkish line of his graphic work survives in it. Object answers object, bowl to lamp shade to vase of tulips, across an expanse of plate glass that seems as large and expectant as a De Chirico piazza. Everything is given extreme distinctness but deprived of weight, and the effect is decidedly eerie...
From time to time the slouch-hatted and trench-coated shade of Humphrey Bogart (Jerry Lacy) appears and dispenses bits of hard-boiled advice to the lovelorn and loveworn Felix. With such expert assistance, Felix finally beds a kindly but dedicated neurotic (splendidly played by Diane Keaton of The God-lather, who spins something funny and touching from the script's few scattered remnants...
After Wisconsin, the field will narrow. Some of the candidates, contemplating the frenetic spring ahead, may be tempted by Adlai Stevenson's vision of an apolitical peace: "To sit in the shade with a glass of wine in my hand and watch the people dance...
JACKSON. To achieve his third-place ranking in Florida, Washington's Scoop Jackson also muddied his strong civil rights record, which dates back some three decades, staking out an antibusing position just a shade short of Wallace's. The main difference was that he did not plead for a halt to busing by presidential decree or legislation; instead, he sought the slower route of a constitutional amendment. Jackson's amendment is under consideration in the Congress and it includes "freedom of choice" and the "neighborhood school," proposals long espoused by anti-integrationists. He also called for federal...