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...claim that its director is something more than a nimble comic stylist. He has the good satirist's indispensable quality, moral indignation, and the wit to show it only in bright, bitter, almost subliminal flashes. Perforce less of a surprise than The Three Musketeers, and perhaps a little sketchier in plotting and characterization. The Four Musketeers disappoints only because we know that there is not enough film left in the can to bring D'Artagnan and the rest back just One more time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Historical Farce | 4/7/1975 | See Source »

Partly for this reason, Spring Snow is hard to evaluate completely now. Word from Japan is that some of its sketchier aspects, notably those dealing with Buddhism and ideas of reincarnation, will be developed later on, changing the emphasis of the whole work. By itself, the book must be judged as an attempt at a grand-scale novel in the 19th century manner. Coming from Mishima, this is a surprise. The material is neither adventurous nor perverse-two qualities often found in his best fiction. The leisurely, well-upholstered prose is far from the impeccable, stripped-down modern style found...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pennant in the Wind | 7/10/1972 | See Source »

...education by people like Herbert Gintis, lecturer in Education, and by Samuel Bowles, associate professor. These two have demonstrated how little secondary education changes economic relations, particularly as reflected in income distribution. It is further seen in work like Charles Silberman's Crisis in the Classroom how much sketchier high school reform is both in theory and in practice...

Author: By Peter M. Shane, | Title: Reform in Practice | 3/25/1972 | See Source »

...Impressionism. The Manet On the Beach is also an unusual work: an important example of the artist's conversion, in midcareer, to the informal open-air painting now known as Impressionism. Painted during the summer of 1873 on the seacoast of Berck-sur-Mer, its lighter palette and sketchier treatment present a striking departure from the indoor lighting and carefully worked-up details of the earlier, sensational Le déjeuner sur I'hérbe-an outdoor scene painted in the studio. Even the Rousseau is a little offbeat, though the famous Sunday painter of imaginary jungles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: One Man's Fancy | 11/28/1969 | See Source »

...behind the history of the black man in America was the sketchier but far more glorious history in Africa, "when we were kings...

Author: By Robert A. Rafsky, | Title: The Movement Shifts from Churches to Bars | 10/3/1966 | See Source »

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