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...play that, according to the ads, you do not have to be Catholic to love. Maybe not, but Catholics of all stripes must have found something particularly provocative in this rich, fine and haunting "fable," which last week got CBS'S revived Playhouse 90 series off to a splendid start...
Executive Producer Sidney Glazier saw to it that the contest is played out against the right backdrop: Irish locations, filmed lovingly by Gerry Fisher, and a cast of splendid faces, as hard and gnarled as blackthorn walking sticks. As directed by Jack Gold, Catholics fairly aches with monkish verisimilitude. When Kinsella's arrival at the abbey prompts Father Manus (a delightful cameo by Cyril Cusack) to rustle up a feast of fresh salmon, the viewer can almost taste...
...Manhattan with two vertical wave patterns, making one think of the Hudson and East Rivers, while the varied vertical projections in between evoke the silhouetted figures of the Manhattan scape." So said brilliant, Kiev-born Louise Nevelson, 73, doyenne of American sculptors, as she supervised the assembling of her splendid gift to the city in which she has lived for 53 years: Night Presence IV, a 22½-ft.-high, 4½-ton rusty steel abstraction...
...cellar with a jug. Naturally it is not easy to find a good worthless novel, but this month the reader with a November in his soul is in luck. John D. MacDonald, the nation's best writer of no-qual crime fantasies, has turned out two splendid and utterly unmeritorious volumes...
...apologizes for taking up their valuable time. He prattles incessantly in a New York accent that seems to be coming down with a sore throat. He gee-whizzes over their luxury houses, stopping in mid-sentence to ask ingenuously what the property taxes might be on such a splendid estate, pausing to work them out in terms of his $11,000-a-year salary. His darting, jabbing gestures carve lexicons in the air. He interrupts interrogations to rummage in pockets crammed with scrappaper reminders of marketing chores as well as murder clues...