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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Executed during a 15-year span from 1971 to 1985, the suite of drawings focuses exclusively on a single model, Wyeth's neighbor Helga Testorf of Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania...
...only a few years ago, when the world tended to view many American products as singularly unattractive in quality and price. In retrospect it was no wonder, since U.S. industries were saddled with an overvalued dollar, vast payrolls, clanky factories and an overstuffed management. Yet in a relatively short span, the attitude and substance of much of American industry have changed. Competitiveness has become a top economic priority, and an overworked buzzword, from Main Street to Capitol Hill. American companies have slimmed down and smartened up, while at the same time the 35% fall in the value of the dollar...
...standard of acting holds throughout Maurice. To be sure, Graves makes his lower-class character appealing, but he cannot make Scudder or his love affair with Maurice very believeable. And although Wilby does manage to convey some of Maurice's more subtle changes over the film's five-year span, he and the other members of the cast never lose their stifling self-conciousness...
...about an elaborate 350th birthday celebration where we will spend thousands of dollars for a lifesize marionette of John Harvard and a large rainbow that will span the width of the Charles River...
...that brief span of time, Cartier-Bresson took dozens of his best-known pictures: Spanish children playing in the rubble of a building, a reflected figure leaping across a puddle behind the Gare St.-Lazare, Mexican prostitutes popping weirdly out of doorway slots. Galassi is not the first to cite surrealism as the force that conferred upon this early work its compelling strangeness, but he makes the decisive case. By the end of this exhibit's seven-city tour -- it goes to Detroit, Chicago, San Diego, Framingham, Mass., Houston and Ottawa through May 1989 -- no one will be able...