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...long enough to spend five years variously at Manhattan's Cooper Union, Vienna's Academy of Fine Art, Oxford University's Ruskin School of Drawing and London's Royal College of Art. He can coalesce flat forms with rounded ones, switch from silhouette to transparency with deft sleights of brush...
...tons of cargo. The two that were flown last week are the first of five to be delivered to the Air Force this year at a cost of more than $100 million. "With an aircraft like this," said LTV Executive Vice President Paul Thayer, as he talked of the brush-fire wars the plane might be used for, "a clearing in a forest performs like a multimillion-dollar runway...
...widely spaced net sarong and lies in a hammock under streaked gold and black lighting that is supposed to suggest the primordial jungle. Crazy Horse girls are, in the main, above bumping and grinding. Lighting is everything, and Bernardin refers to his dozens of tiny spotlights collectively as "my brush...
Dick Shawn and Joan Hackett are admirable foils. He paints the clown-husband character with broad vaudevillian brush strokes. She is a comic pointilliste, and her precise inflections of wifeliness dot the brain like a quiver of hatpins. Peterpat sometimes gets enveloped in the vapors of farce, but one deep breath of comic wisdom animates it-marriage is as funny as hell...
...arrives to say that F.D.R. suffered his attack of polio there, lightning flashes in the sky, grey horses standing in the pasture neigh with terror, and ominously choppy waters are shown in whipping rain. The narrator tells how Roosevelt, on the day he fell sick, became overheated fighting a brush fire, and the producers stage a brush fire to illustrate. F.D.R. later cooled off by taking a deeply chilling swim in the Bay of Fundy. The inference is that these imprudences were the primary cause of his disease. Some people may have thought so in 1921, but these days even...