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that tan!" "Look at that tone!" Fonda's critics took a different view. "She has a body like wood," one man said. "You don't want to stroke her, you want to sand her down." Dale Pollock, a reporter for the Los Angeles Times, complained, "That scene is supposed to be the climax of the film. Instead, it's a commercial for Jane Fonda's Workout Book." If so, the commercial did its job. Work-out (Simon & Schuster, $18.95), published the month On Golden Pond was released, has had 31 weeks on the New York Times...
...They feel unable to convey their mixed feelings of gratitude and frustration to the troops as they again assume the role of a submissive population. "I had to watch myself the other day," says one Port Stanley resident. "The soldiers thought they were being helpful by burning up my wood boxes. They thought it was rubbish. They don't understand how important everything is to us here. Wood is too expensive to burn." Snaps one housewife whose small cottage now contains nine soldiers: "You have to bite your tongue from thinking they liberated us so we could wash their...
...American painter and critically admired modernist who combined a gently mystical Oriental mood with a Western abstract style; of a heart attack; in Tokyo. One of the first Japanese artists to work in the U.S. after World War II, Okada often painted five canvases at once, using pieces of wood, rollers, fingers. And, he said, "of course, I also have brushes...
Onward and upward with the arts. First he outsolemnized Ingmar Bergman with Interiors. Then, with Stardust Memories, he scored a modest 5 out of Fellini's 8½. Now Woody Allen has transported Shakespeare's "wood near Athens" to upstate New York at the turn of this century for A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy. As might be expected, none of these homage-pastiches measures up to the original. But then, neither Bergman nor Fellini nor even Shakespeare ever tried writing a Woody Allen comedy...
...valedictory, the Metamorphosen for 23 solo strings? Instead of yet another oft-encountered romantic symphony, how about Austrian Composer Franz Schmidt's dark, troubled Fourth Symphony? Instead of one more go at Dvořák's "New World" Symphony, why not his exhilarating tone poem The Wood Dove...