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Ridiculously Real. Fabric added a new depth of characterization to his art, making the figures seem more real and all the more ridiculous. There followed works in linen and shiny vinyl, a material that marvelously captured the slick airs and plastic emptiness of city sophistication. The aluminum sculptures reflect a more tender view of human nature. Several celebrate the joys of parenthood. Women, too, appear in a more sensuous and loving light...
Beyond Doubt. For five hours, French and Italian naval vessels and helicopters searched the area until they found an oil slick and a few bits of debris, including a spare-parts tag that bore the name Eurydice. In the loss of the Minerve, authorities had held out hope for four days because the crew had an air supply of 100 hours. In last week's tragedy, they were forced to tell families and relatives immediately that the Eurydice's 56 crewmen, as well as a visiting Pakistani naval officer, were lost beyond doubt...
...This "aesthetic" says that instead of enlivening a slow script with some action and character development, the director should exploit its opportunities for pointless camera essays. Bullitt is an apt example. All scenes last unbearably long because Peter Yates, its "director," didn't know what to do with a slick script except stretch its banality a little further. You a paying audience, are offered fat sequences of self-conscious camerawork, which having nothing better to do than look at the dimly attractive props of Hollywood Purgatory-the pretty starlet, the lush plastic colors, and that good-looking Steve McQueen...
...Tyler Moore, who will play a career girl at a TV station, and Andy Griffith, who will no longer be a rustic sheriff but headmaster of a private school. Herschel Bernardi will be a fledgling executive in yet another comedy series. CBS's other substitutes will be city-slick, with titles like The Interns and Store-Front Lawyers. The intent, says the network's senior programming vice president, Michael Dann, is to "deal with the now scene." The reality may be something else again...
...relationship between the plot of this clumsily simple-minded melodrama called . . . tick . . . tick . . . tick . . . and the slick simple-mindedness of In the Heat of the Night is a lot more than coincidental. Director Ralph Nelson (TIME, Feb. 2) is obviously a man whose political conscience is easily stirred, probably by reading the box-office receipts in Variety. Everything about his film is tacky, derivative, finally exploitative-except for a funny and wise performance by Fredric March. As crafty Mayor Jeff Parks, March transforms a dime-store piece like . . . tick . . . tick . . . tick . . . into a one-jewel movement...