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Though western wonders often wallow when warring with the weevil of eastern ice, Crimson wigglers Peter Anton and Bob Kelly have whetted the whim of coach Carter with wit and little wobble while wrestling with the rinks, wishfully called slopes. With work the pair will leave watchers wonderous with their winter winging...
...animals destroyed in one year because no one wanted them. With health and police costs added, it is no wonder that city halls are greatly concerned about fostering greater owner concern and responsibility. In this seemingly throwaway society, pets must not continue to be a temporary toy and whim that is cast out on the streets when people exhaust the initial novelty...
Many of the pieces in this exhibit were made at the artists' whim, outside of class, and the collection is lively and multiform. Occasionally someone seems to balk at imagination, although nobody is short on skill, and these pieces smack of exercises. A deftly penciled sketch in one corner, for example, depicts a male nude from the rear, familiarly postured with one hand on his hip and his body's weight shifted to one foot. A canvas in variegated blue with purplish undertones, of a bedroom swathed in yellow light, reflects the dappled brush-work and impressionistic style of Monet...
...Finney's curious performance. In trying to flesh out Christie's classic caricature, he has slicked down his hair, altered his voice to a sort of petulant croak and overacted stylishly, if not always enjoyably. Ironically, what works best for him are his eyes. They escape the whim of makeup and never play him false. Finney fills them with irony and cunning in a struggle against all the shabby artifice that surrounds his face and smothers this hapless film...
...sele, 40 miles away, which contains two more residences and a swimming pool billed as Africa's largest. To shuttle between his international chain of palaces, Mobutu uses the national airline, Air Zaire, as a personal transport service. His high-handed habit of commandeering planes at a whim has made Air Zaire's timetables something of a joke. When Mobutu visited West Germany last spring, he took the line's 747 for himself and a DC-10 for his wife, leaving Air Zaire suddenly without its two largest planes...