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Dog Day Afternoon should have been, and almost was, a film about the pathos and mediocrity of American heroism. The portrait of Sonny, flat and droolingly sentimentalized, is still that of a man surprised by his desire for fame. Why else does he end up besieged in the bank for...
At national headquarters in Los Angeles, 60 full-time employees oversee a conglomerate of euphoria that includes the Students International Meditation Society, which has programs on 100 campuses; the International Meditation Society, which gives both beginning and advanced TM courses; and the American Foundation for the Science of Creative Intelligence...
ON JAPAN IN TRANSITION: Needless to say, Japan is not free from the effects of worldwide trends and events. But I hope Japan will continue to keep the good parts of our ancient traditions and help to build the basis of a lasting peace throughout the world in cooperation with...
But as Nadelman's biographer, Lincoln Kirstein, observed, he "refined all coarseness into a subtle fixity of ostentation." He could give the postures of invitation and entertainment a detached grace almost worthy of an archaic kouros. The Whitney show reminds us how good minor art can be.
O'Hara's importance needs no such inflation. His "Gibbsville" region is a worthy addition to American social geography, and his odd, tormented personality contained enough fascinating quirks for several men. "John, I'm your friend," Robert Benchley once told him, "and all your friends know you...