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...distortions seem more acceptable." While Levine often wields his pen as a poisoned dart, he thinks that there are definite limits to his art. "I might wish to be critical," he admits, "but I don't wish to be destructive. Caricature that goes too far simply lowers the viewer's response to a person as a human being." When he is not drawing caricatures, Levine enjoys painting traditional watercolors. His favorite subjects include women at work in New York City's garment district, where he has observed and sketched them since his boyhood...
Even for the uninitiated viewer, the ancestral figures truly project the qualities the Maoris attribute to them: ihi (power), wehi (fear) and wana (authority). Often as grotesque as gargoyles, the heads are covered with the distinctive Maori designs used as tattoos. The slanty, abalone-shell eyes are as impenetrable as mirrors. Sometimes a broad-based tongue juts out in the Maori gesture of raging self-assertion. The broad, lumpy body may be scrunched down in the warrior's crouch, or, ready to spring, the fighter may hold a paddle-shaped club designed to strike a blow at an enemy...
...Automobile and Culture" is more concerned with the social impact of the automobile than its beautiful past or enormous possibilities. The show does not shy away from depredation. Indeed, a viewer who concentrates only on the contemporary seems besieged by editorials in oil, metal emulsion paper...
...role by practicing piano four hours a day. "After that," he says, "all I felt like doing was dancing and drinking all night-just like Mozart." In a daring, powerful performance, this boy with the map of White Water, Wis., stamped on his face soon convinces the viewer that he is the pagan saint of classical music...
...million state-of-the-art studio in Burbank, Calif, especially for the show, and early segments have featured an array of opulent sets alternating with outdoor locales. The cast, headed by Dame Judith Anderson, has been introduced in a series of action-packed plot lines designed to hook viewers. For starters, there is the return to town of Parolee Joe Perkins, accused of murdering a member of Santa Barbara's wealthy Capwell family five years earlier. Says Brian Frons, NBC's vice president of daytime programs: "This is a terrific opportunity for us, because we get to premiere...