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...gifts were illuminated miniatures that had originally been pages in a late 15th century manuscript, and they were the start of what is today the world's biggest and best private collection. Last week 70 items from that collection were on public display at the Cloisters, the way-uptown adjunct of Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art. Some are less than 3 in. in height; none are more than 24 in. All glitter with the gemlike colors that they had when their usually anonymous creators made them...
Lorenzo, a four-performance fatality, marked the uptown debut of Off-Broadway's highly promising Jack (The Prodigal) Richardson, but his play glutted the Broadway commodity exchange with pretentious bosh delivered in bloated rhetoric. A Renaissance acting troupe caught in the crossfire of a small war in north Italy provided the forum for a general, kinesthetically acted by Fritz Weaver, and an actor, lushly hammed by Alfred Drake, to debate the play's theme, which was either the futility of war and the durability of art or the futility of art and the durability of war, playgoer...
...plainly see from the mess on the front of her bulky knit. But Gittel has a career. She is known as Gittel Mosca on the stage-of the 92nd Street Y.M.H.A. Gittel has push. For years she picked up her unemployment check every week and rode the subway uptown to study interpretive dancing with José Limón. And Gittel has principles. No matter how terribly she is tempted, she never sleeps with a man on the first date. Unfortunately, Gittel also has a heart as big as Hadassah. She supports half the dead-beatniks who shack up with...
...years-the race issue is dead in statewide elections, and in this onetime Confederate state both candidates for governor this fall are taking a moderate line on civil rights. In Atlanta, Savannah and Macon, Ga., tightly organized Negro voters' leagues form a powerful coalition with moderate "uptown whites...
...just below the surface in a bathtub, her open eyes transfixed in a death agony. Strangers dishonestly suggests that it is reporting the plight of a typical Puerto Rican family; in fact, few households would witness such a concoction of swirling agonies in a lifetime in Manhattan's uptown slum. But as fiction, Strangers is a gripping shocker...