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...crisis in a straightforward fashion. Caroline Downey, as the mayor's wife, Anna Andreevna, and Lee Cork as his daughter, Maria Antonovna, act in conventional, highly stylized and artificial unison, play off of each other very nicely, and are a high point in the evening. Yet, they are static, and in the end differ in no particular way from their status at the beginning. Similarly, the mayor, portrayed by Wayne Mitchell, remains unchanged by events. But generally his performance does less to enliven the evening...
...Dulles. Insofar as it deals with public life, George Kennan's second volume of memoirs does not appear to have a terribly interesting subject. But even if the period was the boring middle act of a bad tragedy, Kennan's attempts to divert the course of events into less static lines command attention, if only for the force of his personality...
...ceremonial formality of traditional Japanese etiquette. No one says hello or bids good-bye, pays a compliment or enters a room, without bowing politely to show respect, or even deep affection. These motions raise the most ordinary pastimes to a kind of cherished ritual. The langorous physical actions and static facial expressions actually serve to heighten one's awareness of constant tension. For even at the most peaceful moments, fans tremble incessantly in the hands of the actors, attempting to dispell what must be the sweltering heat of summer, and to relieve the friction of increasingly jangled nerves...
...merely irritated many women readers who wanted to get a straight, uncluttered look at the clothes. He brought a daily newspaper's intensity to Bazaar's leisured shop and introduced a gossipy, current news-fashion section. Serious nonfiction received more space than before. Circulation (409,000) remained static, and advertising continued to slide (off 80 pages for the first ten months of this year). Last week the parent Hearst Corp. abruptly gave up on Brady and named two executives from its other magazines to replace him. Advertising Director Thomas Losee Jr. of House Beautiful became Bazaar...
This is a long, unfathomably static but often exhilarating novel about money. There are 104 chapters, at least as many characters, and dialogue that runs on and on like ticker tape. Money is not a particularly easy subject for fiction. Miss Stead is no Balzac or Dickens; on the other hand, she is no Louis Auchincloss either. She is, however, obviously mesmerized by money and her sharpest writing is comment about it. "Certainly I understand the class war," says a rich old countess. "We steal from the pigs: the pigs know they want truffles and we want truffles when...