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...thetics (George Russell Sextet; Riverside). Exercises in introspection by six men whose style is occasionally so cool it congeals. In warmer moods, the soloists-particularly Don Ellis on a hoarsely tender trumpet-are first-rate, and the songs, with their lopsided choruses and barely articulated melodies, have their own tantalizing outer-worldly charm. Included: Russell's own Ezz-thetic and Lydiot, Thelonious Monk's 'Round Midnight...
...than this, and that, along with his canny desire not to flood the market, is the reason for its being kept so long from view. The four paintings that TIME reproduces (see color) catch a variety of styles and colors-plus this personal note. Picasso has seldom been more tender than in his first portrait of Marie-Thėrėse Walter, and rarely has he endowed a figure with such regality as in the second portrait of her. The Minotaur is all passion, sad and fierce at once, almost like the master himself, and in the portrait...
...horse-race winners. As the Poet Trowbridge, George Gobel should have been a natural. Instead, the only thing that stands up in his performance is his crewcut. He is so meek, mild, and mousy as to seem spiritless. Composer Jay Livingston and Lyricist Ray Evans have concocted some tender little lullabies for him to croon, but Gobel's singing voice scarcely carries the length of a baby's crib. Gobel is a comic miniaturist, and a Broadway stage is too wide-screen for his TV-styled gifts...
...author, known as a skilled allegorist for his previous novels (The Natural, The Assistant), is less successful as a writer of realistic fiction, but this novel of an Eastern intellectual's losing battle with the muscular positivism of a Western land college is nevertheless notable for its tender, Chekhovian quality...
...parked a car loaded with high explosives along the route, triggered it by a microwave transmitter. The blast killed Betancourt's aide-de-camp, his chauffeur and a bystander and severely burned Betancourt himself-to the extent that his hands, 16 months later, are still horribly scarred and tender...