Word: souping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Henri-Georges Clouzot (The Wages of Fear, Diabolique) is a French film maker whose stock in trade is grafting psychological aberrations onto standard and somewhat sleazy melodrama. In La Prisonnière, his first film in eight years, Clouzot once again mixes an ordinary story with kinky characters, a soupçon of violence, and a touch of Krafft-Ebing just to add some spice. The result is pat, predictable and more than a little distasteful...
...phony, talks romance. "My sister left home when I was in third grade. Mother and I always came into New York on Saturdays to visit her, and we brought lots of food to stuff her refrigerator. Even when Barbra was in Funny Girl we used to bring in chicken soup and brownies to her dressing room. I guess what I missed most about Barbra's not being home was the trips we used to take to the beach and the lollipops she always gave me when I stopped in to see her at the Chinese restaurant where she worked...
...fashioned visions possessed by some of the lesser artists seem appropriate--the death of Desdemona or a gargoyle on Notre Dame. These images let the eye explore fantasies in ink that come from an era very distant from our own when art is haunted predominantly by Campbell's Soup...
...middle of a Marx Brothers festival during a showing of "Go West." These people are from the self-professed "Andy's Gang" (a group that would later splinter from X in a dispute over structure). They pass out balloons that read "Andy died for your sins," "Good Soup and Andy's Gang," "JFK died for Andy's sins," and "John Lennon uses Andy...
...newest crop of painters who prey upon their fellows promises to prove more unsettling than any of its predecessors. For one thing, the school is proliferating rapidly. One Manhattan showroom is currently showing Richard Pettibone's miniature copies of Andy Warhol's soup cans, while another opened last week with Howard Kanovitz's paintings of his easel, his art-world friends and the backs of his canvases. A third gallery is showing Malcolm Morley's version of Vermeer's Portrait of the Artist in His Studio-a much-admired painting that has also served...