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...Singular Talent. Still has written about his preference for "the vertical rather than the horizontal; the single projection, instead of polarities; the thrust of the flame instead of the oscillation of the wave." This was partly meant to separate his work from the tradition of the School of Paris, which was all balance and harmonious composition. But in such remarks, as in the work, one catches the note of true terribilità that lies beneath the grumpy face Still turns to the public...
...last week, as Porter left Ottawa to take up a new post as Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau angrily told a cheering House of Commons that Porter had gone beyond "the acceptable bounds within which an ambassador should stay." In a singular diplomatic snub, ministers of Trudeau's Liberal government refused to attend a farewell party given by Porter at his residence...
...feet and the Americans started to leave, after shaking hands. But one of the Chinese halted them. "The Chairman wants to walk you to the door," he said. Mao and Ford went into the hall with the Ping Pong table and on out to the front door. In that singular house in that faraway land, it was a special gesture by this living legend...
...watch") must be lovable. Richard Benjamin is not. Too broad for the English idiom, he appears to have strayed from a road company of Fiddler on the Roof. Eric Thompson directs with the same ordered frenzy he applied to Ayckbourn's hit of last year, Absurd Person Singular, but this time he is hampered by a company that fails to become an ensemble...
...company has hired one 24-year-old man as a laborer so far. Some 80 people have got jobs - with the House of Vision, Thor Power Tool Co., F. W. Means & Co. and other firms - as a result of the children's crusade. The effort has had such singular success that offers are still coming in. An A+ to the kids at Holy Angels...