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...gods of Homer emerge distinct and individual without losing their immortal shimmer. If the gods are sometimes seen as trivial or spoiled human beings, it is because they are not viewed as they were in Homeric times. Homer's original disteners understood the behavior of the gods in a different context of beliefs, and from a different fundamental awareness of the world...
Last week Manhattan's Leonard Hutton Galleries had on display the first one-man Münter show in the U.S.-44 paintings whose colors glow in bright chunks and whose landscapes shimmer under blazing skies. Gabriele is the sole surviving member of Germany's Blue Rider group, which included not only Kandinsky but Franz Marc and Paul Klee.* In spite of her bright palette, there is no gaiety in her canvases; they are intense, charged with emotion, and all a trifle sad-like the artist herself...
David Berman's rather bulky portfolio of verse represents no appreciable growth in technique or feeling over his last published collection. Verbal pretension and technical sloppiness clutter passage after passage. Berman's poetry has the appearance of craftsmanship, but the shimmer of alliteration and assonance disguises a formless ooze of lush words...
...Leather, knit and tweed are big (often combined, particularly by Bonnie Cashin). Cassini and Pauline Trigère have richly printed brocades, Dior-New York shows them in fine, polished, often solid colors. Tiffeau is using lizard in trim and whole cloth for a waterproof, black evening raincoat. For shimmer and shine, the original beads-and-glitter girl, Roxanne of Samuel Winston, has some old-style heavy beaded dresses as well as new lighter ones. Scaasi's long dresses have so much sparkle that many come with protective theatrical capes. Larry Aldrich has combined crepes and satins with spangles...
...novel is not merely a sentimental binge. Paris, Venice and the Riviera shimmer before the reader's eye like mirages evoked by Remarque's lovingly descriptive touch. And he has more than a trace of the gift that Cyril Connolly once noted in Hemingway of "saturating his books with the memory of physical pleasure, with sunshine and salt water, with food, wine and making love, and with the remorse which is the shadow of that sun." The trouble is that Remarque's sun is too often in eclipse...