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While your film critic Richard Schickel does list some of the unsavory images in the film The Tin Drum [April 28], he gives no warning of the many scenes that reduce sexual love to obscene bestiality and make women grosser than men in their lustfulness. It is a repulsive film...
...Conservatory of Music was bestowing on Flutist James Galway, 40, "you have given the musical community a fresh voice to celebrate." Accepting the degree, Galway treated the 109th graduating class of the august Boston school to that very ebullience and panache. From under his doctoral robes, he produced two tin whistles on which he played Belfast Hornpipe and jigs drawn from an Irish boyhood...
...size from Guernica, Picasso's 26-ft.-wide mural of protest against the fascist bombing of a Basque town during the Spanish Civil War, to a cluster of peg dolls he painted for his daughter Paloma. Paintings, drawings, collages, prints of every kind, sculpture in bronze, wood, wire, tin, string, paper and clay; there was virtually no medium the Spaniard did not use, and all are profusely represented...
...array of cut and folded metal sheets that opened to let space in, was the first constructed sculpture in the history of art. It abolished the solidity, the continuous surface that had been, until then, the essential narrative of sculpture. From that unpromising-looking piece of rusty tin, a 60-year tradition of open-form sculpture was born that spread from Russian constructivism to the work of Anthony Caro in England and David Smith...
Unlike Angleton, Harvey was almost too accessible. Known as the "Pear" be cause of his shape, Harvey was, says Mar tin, "the secret war made flesh." The bluff, boisterous Harvey began his career at the FBI, where his macho style offended J. Edgar Hoover. Transferring to the CIA, he took with him an encyclopedic knowledge of Soviet agents operating in the U.S. Harvey, contemptuous of striped-pants types, was the first, declares Martin, to identify Philby as a Soviet spy. The fact that Phil by traveled in the best circles did not mislead Harvey as it did others...