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Green bore a bulky resemblance to George S. Kaufman, and he could be almost as funny, talking in an original staccato shorthand. Broadway legend has it that when he wanted a friend to give him a phone call, he would say: "Gimme a quick Ameche one of these days," referring to Don Ameche's bio-pic of Alexander Graham Bell. Canceling a meeting: "Can't meet you today -unforch...
...short, to reinvent his art and his methods for every new production." Ostensibly, Dubuffet would like to escape European psychology and history. The past oppresses him. Originality means innocence. Yet his paintings are undeniably full of rules, conventions and accepted signs taken over from other art forms. The shorthand of child drawing-the wavy contours and schematic figures, the jammed and frontally flattened space-is as important to a Dubuffet like Boulevard Bonne-Nouvelle as perspective space is in a Perugino. Dubuffet used these techniques deliberately to discover how ludicrous, violent or absurd an image a given set of conventions...
Other profitmaking undertakings are auto repair and construction businesses. The family also runs shorthand classes and sends younger members to public trade schools. One student goes to the San Francisco Art Institute; others attend Drew School, a prep school that exchanges scholarships for the labor of Delancey residents. "We know public high school campuses are flooded with narcotics, and we want to protect our kids from that," says Indian-born Mon Sandhu, 27. "That's why we send them to private school...
Appearing at the Shorthand Hotel to address his campaign workers shortly after midnight. Nixon began his talk with abundant praise of his running-mate. Vice president Spiro T. Agnew. "The Vice President has proved he's a great campaigner," Nixon said...
...just such a starveling kitten of a comedy. The title is classified-ad shorthand for an apartment with a river view. The locale is Manhattan. Inspecting the rent-controlled flat are two strangers, Anne (Jane Alexander) and Paul (Jerry Orbach), both married, but with their respective spouses otherwise occupied. A missing doorknob effectively locks them in together...