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Throughout the '30s and '40s, densely academic images of slightly poisoned girlish innocence would become Balthus's stock-in-trade. He did portraits too. His rendering of Andre Derain as a jowly menhir of flesh in a dressing gown is surely one of the great portraits of the century. But the schoolgirls were his preoccupation. Nobody could call them obscene; they have Art written all over them. Yet they have a great deal in common with the higher literary porn of the '40s, in which writers like Georges Bataille or Andre Pieyre de Mandiargues wove faultless...
...hampered by unfamiliarity and inexperience, which will continue to be factors, especially after this week's shifts. Last week's racing pace of 34 strokes per minute was a bit slower than last week's competition, but Parker says he once again anticipates a cadence in the mid-30s...
Those viewers should be delighted by Kate and Allie. The show, starring Jane Curtin of Saturday Night Live and Susan Saint James (McMillan and Wife; The Name of the Game), is a witty reinterpretation of The Odd Couple, plus three children. Both women are unabashedly in their 30s, divorced and skeptical about the mating game. If Pleshette Mary Tyler Moore developed a split personality, her two halves could be spun off as Kate and Allie. Played in wound-up preppie style by Curtin, Allie is the kind of roommate who makes meatloaf while wearing 5 pearls. Kate...
...studied dance for ten years, says she has been to Chorus Line 14 times. Yet some of these devotees seem not to have grasped its essentials. Among those waiting to audition are people who look much too old or too young to play dancers in their 20s and early 30s. Some look badly out of shape. Although the characters are specifically defined, even idiosyncratic, few of the aspirants seem to have a particular role in mind. When Lori Agid, 26, is asked what part she feels suited to, she answers simply, "Whatever...
...dishonest decade" was the way W.H. Auden viewed the '30s; he was thinking of politics. Clifford Odets saw those years as a time when "every house was lousy with lies and hate"; he was thinking of the middle class. From the vantage point of a half-century, that appears to be all he ever thought about. It is not the most flattering way to remember the man who was once the lodestar of the Old Left. But then neither is the revival of his melodrama Awake and Sing...