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Painting with Bread. What seemed like claptrap was in fact a pioneering concern with light-the same concern that the impressionists were to share almost a generation later. While other artists began even the sketchiest watercolor with a painstaking drawing, Turner worked swiftly and directly with color. He might use a sponge, a knife, a finger or a piece of bread to get the desired effect; he was perfectly willing to let form be nearly drowned in movement. Few men have ever captured so luminously the restless wave, the fleeting cloud, a gathering mist or a fading twilight...
...change, approached Antony--given its cast--with a welcome sense of responsibility. Enormously aided by Tharon Musser's lighting, by Rouben Ter-Arutunian's basic but effective settings and stunning costumes (which range from a black-and-gold tent-like shroud in which Cleopatra commits suicide to the sketchiest of breechclouts worn by her Egyptian slaves), and by an extraordinarily precise crew of stagehands, Landau has achieved a visual treat that moves smoothly and employs the possibilities of the Festival's stage with impressive virtuosity. And he is not afraid to adopt a simple, symmetrical Renaissance blocking when this...
Comedians were flown in from Hollywood and Florida to do two-and three-minute introductions of the different numbers. Jack Benny had an uneven skit about his troubles in buying a ticket to a Rodgers & Hammerstein hit; Edgar Bergen made only the sketchiest effort at being a ventriloquist in a pair of episodes with Charlie McCarthy and Ed Sullivan; Groucho Marx got the best laughs as a quizmaster cutting Rodgers & Hammerstein down to size...
...shanghaied crew, a hunt for buried treasure in the South Seas, a fight between a shark and Hurricane Smith (John Ireland). Also aboard is an exotic half-Polynesian girl (Yvonne de Carlo) who does a native love dance on the deck of the pirate ship dressed in the sketchiest of sarongs...
...Defensively, the U.S. today probably has sufficient air defense to cut down a concentrated attack on the U.S. Strategic Air Command bases and atomic installations. But it cannot now defend the nation against raids on U.S. cities. The best estimate today, based on the sketchiest intelligence, is that the Russians have not a sufficient supply of atomic bombs to make a sustained atomic offensive against the U.S. and destroy its industrial potential. But even the most hopeful reader of such reports as trickle out of Russia agrees that the U.S.S.R. will have an atomic stockpile to back up such...