Word: superbeings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...honest for his own good. His great medical paintings, the Agnew Clinic and the Gross Clinic-the most daring works of their kind since Rembrandt's Anatomy Lesson-so horrified the squeamish critics that some began calling him "a butcher." His paintings of boaters, swimmers and boxers-superb studies of water and muscle in motion-scorned the theatricality of the Hudson River school. His portraits were so penetrating that few prominent Philadelphians would even sit for him. One man explained: "He would bring out all the traits of my character that I have been trying to hide from...
...built his reputation on a handful of brilliant monologues. He has now committed himself to The Bob Newhart Show (NBC), which requires as much new material each week as he used to develop in months. Last week's premiére showed the strain, starting with a superb phone monologue and autobiographical sketch ("people thought I was taller than I am, but this is about as big as an accountant will get") and sliding slowly downhill thereafter...
...atlas, which includes a 160-page index, is at its best in its superb relief maps. In addition, each large area of the planet is shown, by means of color photos of a specially built globe, as it would look from a point several hundred miles out in space. The technique gives, for instance, a sense of the almost landless expanse of the Pacific with a vividness that could be duplicated only by taking an ocean voyage or reading Conrad. Throughout the book, geology is used to explain geography. Below the map for Florida, for example, is a diagram demonstrating...
...Hallmark Hall of Fame (NBC, 8:30-10:30 p.m.). Maurice Evans and Judith Anderson in a repeat of last year's superb production of Macbeth, much of which was filmed at Scotland's Hermitage Castle. Color...
Finally, the acting is superb, but it is mechanically superb. Vittorio de Sica and the rest of the cast have the exact gesture and the exact expression for every occasion, but for the most part they are more slick than moving...