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...Luce-Hadden invention exerted a great influence on the nation's newspapers, which borrowed (in return for their clippings) some of TIME's style and mode of presentation; the news review section, now a common feature, began to proliferate. A whole generation of young newspaper reporters rebelled against city-room shibboleths, experimenting outside the routine who-what-when-where...
...mode has never been especially mod. In fact, Britain's catty fashion press has sometimes accused Princess Anne, 16, of being somewhat dowdy. Now it seems that Anne has turned into a bit of a bird. On her way back to Benenden School in Kent after holidays, the princess showed up in London's Liverpool Street station wearing shiny black boots and a quasi-miniskirt cut three inches above the knee. Of course she still has a long way to escalate before raising any eyebrows in the Chelsea group, but all the same the Fleet Street headlines blared...
...George Etherege, Restoration fop and mover, tossed off a play called The Man of Mode; or, Sir Fopling Flutter. The play is unfettered by plot, unburdened by morals, unsourced by satire. Like the Glass Flowers, it is all for appearance, a collection of delicately made specimens of a certain type of life. The Man of Mode is very much of its age, not for all time. In this limp-wrist world, the winners win by virtue of their wit, and the losers lose for having the bad taste to display jealously -- a situation which confuses our twentieth-century sympathies. Furthermore...
...main character in Man of Mode never comes to life. This is Dorimant, a lover who thrives on intrigue and conquers with a quick tongue -- demanding a graceful star with a virtuoso sense of timing. Mr. Keith has no tthe equipment to do the part. His speech is sing-song when it should be crisp; he moves with an awkward amble when sh should walk like a dancer; and he has a jarring resemblence to Bobby Kennedy, unfortunate for this part. He defies us to concentrate on his cuts and epigrams...
...Chelsea Girls is really the result of Andy Warhol's belief in the brilliance of his own mode of life. He is on to something so good, good enough to film, that he and his friends get together some Saturday afternoon and let the cameras roll. If the actor moves and the camera catches only a bit of his head and lots of the bathroom behind him, it's all right: it's all good stuff. A director can afford a certain nonchalance when he's working in the unexplored regions of the soul...