Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Creation. After his theater chain folds he becomes production assistant to Mack Sennett at D.W. Griffith's Biograph studios in New York. Sennett and Mabel Normand carry on their Keystone Kops love affair; Harold Lloyd simulates climbing the side of a building on a facade laid flat on the floor; Fatty Arbuckle takes a blueberry pie in the face; and Buster Keaton gives Charlie Chaplin costume advice for a tramplike character he hopes will make people laugh...
...Siberian. An executive, whose drafty 26th-floor office commands a splendid view of northern Manhattan and a stretch of the Hudson, sat glaring at her thermometer last week. The reading was 62°, "and that doesn't allow for wind chill." She contemplates rising to greet a visitor and falling flat on her face because she has forgotten to step out of her snuggle sack...
...Broadwater trimmed utility bills 80%, to $200,000 annually. Other changes were more painful. The number of salaried employees was reduced to 16 from 50, and the top six managers took a combined pay cut of $71,000 a year. With union support, Broadwater dropped hourly wages to a flat $5, from as much as $6.50. Paid holidays fell to eight from twelve. Vacations, which had averaged five to six weeks annually, were reduced and dropped altogether for the first year. Also axed: the costly pension plan, which had been chewing up $900,000 a year, or between...
...authorities' pursuit of all three fugitives are full of similar surprises, including a fine action sequence in which horse and rider twist and turn through town and countryside, eluding with skill and heart the mechanized klutzes who are after them. Here, too, there are improbabilities: an effete Thoroughbred flat racer could not really move like a cow pony or return him to nature as easily as this movie suggests. But even at the end there is a neat plot twist that distracts from taking the story too literally and gives the picture a strong finishing kick...
Will Barnet: 27 Master Prints (Abrams; 63 pages; $12.50) offers a sampling of work done over the past decade and provides fresh evidence of the artist's versatility. His lithographs employ a broad palette of muted, pastel colors, while the serigraphs are built up from large blocks of flat, brilliant hues. For subjects, Barnet favors women and cats in stylized arrangements leaning toward abstraction. Woman Reading, perhaps his best-known work, achieves an almost hieroglyphic serenity...