Word: unevennesses
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...year of anywhere from 20 to 50 items, the number of art works that could be seen in the course of a New York season would be anywhere from 40,000 to 100,000. Even if there were only the top galleries and the handful of others that, while uneven in performance, are still honest and earnest, a person would be hard put to see Manhattan's biggest, splashiest, dottiest, noblest and most beautiful show in its entirety...
Wash-and-Wear Ulysses. The Ulysses of this uneven Odyssey is Professor Arnold Soby, a burnt-out romantic case (his young wife had died years before) with little left but his literary allusions. Encrusted with irony, hobbled by a pedagogue's inability to face life except in terms of art, Soby nevertheless fancies himself a secret worshiper of the wisdom of the body-for him symbolized by the bacchic visions that lured Gustav Aschenbach, the aging hero of Thomas Mann's famous novella, Death in Venice, to a debasing but idyllic passion for a beautiful young...
...essay gatherings go, A View of My Own is oddly uneven, since the deft Hardwick prose has occasionally been put to work at drab tasks. There are forgettable reviews of forgotten books, a surprisingly maudlin attempt to explain the death and nine legal lives of Caryl Chessman as an indictment of the U.S. inability to understand its youth. But Hardwick also writes with wit and accuracy about the proud, faded elegance of Boston, a city, she argues, "that is not a small New York, as they say a child is not a small adult, but is, rather, a specially organized...
...apart from who produces it, Can-Can is not the Great American Musical. In fact, it boggles the senses to discover how bad it is in places, and how far its few good tunes are expected to stretch. Yet the Winthrop House Music Society has grappled with this diffuse, uneven creation, and won. Chiefly by the injection of large amounts of good old college-kid exuberance, the Winthrop players have turned out a vastly entertaining show...
...Cover) Her feet are too big. Her nose is too long. Her teeth are uneven. She has the neck, as one of her rivals has put it, of "a Neapolitan giraffe." Her waist seems to begin in the middle of her thighs, and she has big, half-bushel hips. She runs like a fullback. Her hands are huge...