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...Will Blend with Surroundings...
Neocapitalism is a blend of expansive private enterprise, extensive social-welfare programs and selective government intervention-a syncretism of capitalism's proven methods with some of socialism's less extreme aims. It has already made doctrinaire Marxism outdated, changed many socialists into business-minded pragmatists and made social workers out of many capitalists. Though Britain's victorious Labor Party leaned farther to the left than was expected in setting up a government last week (see THE WORLD), its reassurances to private enterprise are typical of the change. Said Laborite Douglas Jay, new president of the Board...
JUDY: He does bring to the screen his own particular blend of past and present, his own perceptive consciousness of the mind and its experience, his own harsh juxtaposition of memory and fact, of yearning and fulfillment. How ludicrous to call Muriel "essentially false, an elaborate piece of mystification" as that aging enfant terrible of British film criticism, John Russell Taylor, recently...
...times in the past 27 years, Author Ambler has taken ingredients not unlike these and distilled his own aromatic blend of 160-proof suspense-sometimes with the smoky overtones of his early A Coffin for Dimitrios, sometimes with the dry, fruity tang of last year's The Light of Day (bubblingly filmed by Jules Dassin as Topkapi). This time, unfortunately, somebody's been tinkering with the formula. As Piet and Lucia go through their appointed rounds of deception and huff-and-puff chase, the reader begins to realize that too many of the motivations are phony, too much...
...paintings. His fastback hair is peroxide blond, his eyes peep owlishly through black spectacles, and occasionally he sports a gold-lamé dinner jacket. Yorkshire-born Hockney's first one-man show in Manhattan was a sellout when it opened last week. His painting, a poetic blend of childish innocence and sophisticated whimsicality, is often dominated by an edgy displacement of figures in space. His bite is sharp in 16 etchings for The Rake's Progress, a series on his adventures in Manhattan, inspired by Hogarth's classic. California Art Collector, explains Hockney, combines quaintness and caricature...