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...Angeles. Friends desperately tried to get word to an expert vacationing in Africa to return at once. As the week wore on, cars with an array of license plates from across the nation flocked to Salisbury. Battalions of observers armed with telescopes, cameras dwarfed by huge telephoto lenses, sketch pads and binoculars took up daily vigils. They lined the sea wall along one side of an estuary of the Merrimack River and the state beach opposite, eyes trained on the mud flats below...
...first Monty Python album (with a big foot crushing a TV screen on the cover) includes the immortal "Dead Parrot" sketch. Unfortunately it's an import and so more expensive than the ordinary record; this is compensated for, though, by the availability of MP's subsequent two albums as $1.99 cut-outs. These are both classics and include the "Argument Clinic," "Budgies," "Spam," "The Undertaker," "The Travel Agent," "How Long is it?" and Karl Marx on a quiz show. Each contains at least one run of five or six superb pieces...
...cajole, shock, or threaten his audience into action. He does not preach apocalypse, or even seem to fear it. Instead, he warns that standards of living around the world must fall if the world's population keeps doubling every thirty-five years. In The Human Interest offers a sketch of today's population problems and a prescription for stabilization...
Many of the pieces in this exhibit were made at the artists' whim, outside of class, and the collection is lively and multiform. Occasionally someone seems to balk at imagination, although nobody is short on skill, and these pieces smack of exercises. A deftly penciled sketch in one corner, for example, depicts a male nude from the rear, familiarly postured with one hand on his hip and his body's weight shifted to one foot. A canvas in variegated blue with purplish undertones, of a bedroom swathed in yellow light, reflects the dappled brush-work and impressionistic style of Monet...
...pair's children--and cutting references to them in other places. The film, as cut, is all of one piece, but it leaves out so much that it isn't the same work. It seems, from the published screenplay, that the film he released is like a violent sketch for a larger, more detailed painting that would lose sensation because it covered too much. Enough is left out of the U.S. version that, confronted with convincing passions on the screen, the viewer is forced to fill out the details from his own life...