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...figures of Russia's pre-Revolution Parnassus-Sergei Rachmaninoff, Feodor Chaliapin, Alexander Pushkin, Leo Tolstoy-all close friends of the artist. There was a startling psychological study of Lenin, done in 1921, which captures his aggressive intelligence. From Pasternak's later period in Berlin there was a sketch of a dark-haired, mustachioed Albert Einstein playing the violin. Most of the 82 charcoal, pastel, chalk and red pencil drawings in the show demonstrated Pasternak's talent for capturing a fleeting moment of gentleness and humanity-a talent that made many an aging visitor stop, catch his breath...
...Loeb Experimental Theater. The play was one-act, lasting a bit over twenty minutes. The audience at the first performance didn't in fact realize the play was over when it came to an end. They waited for more, not because they expected an explicit disentanglement of the sketch's nebulous events--probably they had already become familiar with the promising ambiguities of Pinter, Ionesco, Adamov, Genet--but because the classics of the theatre of the abstract have been long-winded. This one was rapid, lucid; and also banal...
...that--aside from his wonderful drawings--is a secret of his charm. The sermon is a kind of good-tempered antinomian tract, expressing a universal and perfectly justified skepticism about mostly everything. And there is entirely too much tolerance for the skepticism to ever become bitter. The most biting sketch in The Black Book is a caricature of a red-neck super-patriot Wildcat--"It's people like me what come from old stock that knows a Real American from a Phony--that's where the government breaks down--they got too many card-carryin' spies feedin...
...walking calculator when what the job called for was a sales or production genius. In the three years since, Donner's electronic-quick brain has proved to be everything everyone said of it. (Says Donner of his numbers skill, in characteristic self-deprecation: "Some people can sketch, but to me it comes easily to use figures, almost like a language.") In ultimate tribute to G.M.'s collective judgment, however, Donner has also shown himself deft with people and a first-class administrator. Says one of G.M.'s outside directors: "Fred Donner is the epitome...
...farewell to television's biggest late-nighttime audience, the silence that followed seemed merciful. The tantrums, the shaded vulgarity, the curious, hostile tension of his nightly soiree had come to an end. It has taken almost two months without Paar to illustrate how forceful each ingredient was. to sketch the enormity of the hole he left behind. Filling in until Johnny Carson takes over the Tonight show next fall, some of television's tinniest princes have presided over the show, and each has left the unmistakable mark of his inability to master Paar's charismatic tricks...