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Died. Frank Sullivan, 83, gentle humorist and supreme authority on American clichés who for 50 years gave the benefit of his amiable wit to the readers of the old New York World, The New Yorker magazine and his twelve books; after a long illness; in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. A native of Saratoga Springs, Sullivan knuckled down to work at age ten, pumping water for thirsty bettors at the nearby race track. He graduated from Cornell in 1914, and headed home to report for the local Saratogian at $7 a week. After World War I, Sullivan moved...
...Trock impressed the New Yorker's Arlene Croce, perhaps the sternest dance critic of all. Reviewing Bassae/Karpova's performance in the Don Quixote, Croce wrote: "Karpova, I believe, gave a better performance than the Bolshoi's Nina Sorokina. There was more wit, more plasticity, more elegance and even more femininity in Karpova's balances and kneeling backbends than in all of Sorokina's tricks." The Track's recent winter season drew such eminent visitors as Jerome Robbins and Mikhail Baryshnikov. Sighed Bassae: "After 20 years of dancing I finally made it when...
...Senate can be obtained for $200,000. U.S. Senators, as a rule, can be had for much less. Moral indignation, that main current of contemporary American thought, seems nonexistent. Yet Vidal's travelogue through this dark time is as funny as it is unsettling. With malicious wit, irresistible gossip and sturdy research, he turns 1876 into an ornate 200th birthday card inscribed with a poison...
...bantering relationship with J.F.K. Once, sitting next to Kennedy at a horse show, the author remarked on how easy it would be for a marksman to assassinate the President. Vidal then added that he would probably be hit instead. "No great loss," Kennedy joked. But Vidal's snappish wit and lofty mien were not the virtues of a loyal flatterer. Robert Kennedy distrusted and disliked him. During a White House party, Bobby flared when Vidal laid a brotherly hand on Jackie. Insults were exchanged, and Gore was banished from the court. He later struck back in print with fulminations...
...would have been both pleasant and salutary to see a film about a good match prevailing against the odds-sort of like seeing a re-release of a Nick and Nora Charles picture. But it would have required the wit and style that informed the inexpensively made Thin Man films and other light, sophisticated romances, some of which starred Lombard herself. These qualities, once so readily found in American movies, have now vanished. A cloddish script slams at us single-entendre jokes about sex. Doltish direction hammers them home with the sweaty desperation of a bad nightclub comic whose...