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...greater because Manet, perhaps more than any other painter, gains by the imposing presence and scale of the originals, 17 of which in the Philadelphia show have never before been exhibited in the U.S. The very characteristics that most bothered his contemporaries-his lack of glazes, his impetuous brush stroke, the warping of perspective and the often unfinished quality of his work-were daring risks knowingly faced and boldly taken. To savor Manet's triumphs requires a quick, appreciative eye in the presence of the real thing...
High atop a mountain, a gust toppled a transmission tower; a crackling power line dropped into the brush and started a fire. Winds up to 50 m.p.h. quickly whipped blazes into conflagrations that ruined 2,100 acres of the Angeles National Forest, killed 14 fire fighters and severely burned twelve others. Even those not directly threatened by the flames felt the wrath of the Santa Ana. Temperatures in downtown Los Angeles rose to a stifling 100°; extremely low humidity dried the throats, chapped the lips, and helped bring an unaccustomed irritability to untold millions of Southern Californians...
...When the Fuller Brush Man rings once, look twice-he may well be a woman. After relying almost entirely on men for 60 years, Connecticut's Fuller Brush Co.-taking a tip from Avon Products-has hired 17,500 women this year, plans eventually to field 50,000, mostly part time. Throughout the country employers are turning more and more to women to fill jobs that they have never held before, or at least not since the World War II heyday of Rosie the Riveter...
...Mine. Mel Ferrer as the young old master says it to Rosanna Schiaffino as the highborn senorita whose family will not allow her to be his. Rosanna ultimately dies in a convent, post partum and penitent, paying dearly for what began as just another portrait sitting. After a brush with a heretic-hunting cardinal (Mario Feliciani) of the Spanish Inquisition, Mel goes quietly to pieces and spends the brief epilogue in an asylum, where demented models presumably inspire his oddly elongated, mystical portraits of the saints...
...hard to feel really sorry for her, but Beryl Reid brings her to such vividly bitchy life that it is also hard to take the eye or mind off her. Equally expert and subtle are the acting strokes with which Eileen Atkins and Lally Bowers brush in the characters of the other two witches. Frank Marcus' spoofing of the BBC is the weakest aspect of his play, but his stingingly unsentimental probe of what is foolish, vile, vain, concupiscent, and servile in the human animal stirs up a cauldron of laughter...