Word: solids
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...film version of Novelist Arthur Hailey's 1965 bestseller about clean towels and dirty people in a New Orleans hotel is more worthy of a stopover than the book. The improvement is due mainly to Director Richard Quine's smoothly geared meshing of the various subplots and solid performances by Rod Taylor, Michael Kennie, Merle Oberon, Karl Maiden...
...always seemed solid only to those who, with Plato, considered art to be the imitation of nature. The classic anecdote of the triumph of art as artifice concerned Zeuxis: when he unveiled his painting of grapes, birds flew down to peck at them. What the anecdotists seldom added is that Zeuxis' rival won the contest, for when the judges turned to unveil his painting, they were stunned to discover that the veil itself was the painting and declared him the winner because he had fooled the judges, while Zeuxis had fooled only birds...
What then is art? The modern sages offer no solid answers. Says Sherman Lee, director of the Cleveland Museum of Art: "It is an expression of individual sensibilities. A neon Coca-Cola sign is in a very real sense a piece of art. The fact that anyone could make it is more or less beside the point. The fact is that no one else did make it." Says the Museum of Modern Art's Alfred Barr, who is viewed by many as the untiaraed pope of the modern art world: "It is folly to say what is art. Works...
...character-crammed plots and subplots are synchronized by Director Richard Quine like cars in a well-run elevator bank. Something is always moving, nothing is ever out of control. The color is warm, the performances are solid, the talk is sensible-much more sensible, in fact, than it was in the novel. Paying guests will have a pleasant stay in this Hotel, and experience a mild but genuine regret at checkout time...
More Big Meets are coming up, and the BAA will provide solid competition for only a limited number of men. The Greater Boston Collegiate meet is Feb. 18 and it is followed closely by the Big Three meet at New Haven. Area colleges are pushovers, but Yale and Princeton have greatly improved. They could give the Crimson a tussle for a change...