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What this show presents, therefore, is something more than a Thoroughbred stable: it is a cross-section view of the growth of one of the fundamental visual images of Western culture. One can only admire the elegance, tact and precision with which the Met and the Italian scholars involved in this delectable project have mounted it. -Robert Hughes

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Thoroughbreds from Venice | 3/10/1980 | See Source »

...startled band has no intention of sharing the field with these unexpected rivals, nor does it thrill to the tame lyrics. The band conveys its sentiments with predictable tact...

Author: By Susan C. Faludi, | Title: V--I--C--T--O--R--Y | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

...dead father and brother, and her rivalry with her sister Vanessa, alternately undermined and reinforced her will to live. This was "the circular dance of Virginia's buried incestuous feelings." In such passages Edel neither simplifies nor obfuscates. He has that rarest of traits among psychological interpreters: tact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Kaleidoscope | 7/23/1979 | See Source »

...Public Theater; he is blessed. Entrusting a play to Irene Worth is like investing in the Krugerrand. She is pure gold. Voskovec, in what amounts to a crawl-on part, is admirable. As for Andrei Serban, the ebullient Rumanian-born director-improvisationist, he has had the incredible tact not to tamper with the text. For which relief, much thanks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: God ls AWOL | 6/18/1979 | See Source »

...Crimson today (Monday, May 8) displayed a remarkable lack of tact and a general vacuousness of social consciousness in their article "Gordie Gardiner: A Thoroughbred Plies the Charles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Virtuous Example? | 5/10/1979 | See Source »

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