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LEONARD BASKIN-Borgenicht, 1018 Madison Ave. at 78th. More of his men, birds and birdmen, but if Raskin's themes remain unchanged, his treatment is always fresh. Few artists break up space so imaginatively, or trap the animal lurking in humans with more cunning. Some of the 22 drawings are eight feet high. At AFI, 1067 Madison Ave. at 80th: four illustrations for the Yiddish edition of The Old Man and the Sea. Both through...
...cycle, we have had The Waste Makers, The Pyramid Climbers, The Brain Pickers, The Naked Society, and that inevitable-but-yet-unwritten examination of the lunch habits of advertising men, Breath in the Afternoon. Now, with no moon in sight, the co-author of The Split-Level Trap has written The Weekenders...
...Trapped. It was an ugly, bloody little war at that. One day last week, seeking to root the Red Wolves out of their mountain redoubts, 120 British paratroopers attacked the mud-walled town of El Naqiil at dawn with fixed bayonets. The rebels scampered up the slopes, dug in, and with deadly sniper fire pinned the paratroopers to the ground in shimmering heat. Twelve hours later, at dusk, the British finally broke out of the trap and routed the rebels, killing twelve. Two Britons died...
...this man, Tarasov's inquisitiveness seemed to exceed the requirements of journalism, and he confided his suspicions to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Baiting their trap with a harmless but official-looking document, the police let the government man trade it to Tarasov for cash...
...only to his stratagems, realizing them too late. Interpretation, however, was only the door to his triumph, which reached its height in the Moor's eruption of jealousy and murderous violence. Said the Financial Times's Alan Dent: "He is like a lion caught in a cruel trap." In the Daily Mail, the often appreciation-proof Bernard Levin said that "Sir Laurence's Othello is larger than life, bloodier than death, more piteous than pity...