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...other five incumbents strongly supported in the past, have all heard the bell and started to come out of their respective corners. Poster for poster, Councilor Walter J. Sullivan's advertising has been the most in evidence. A sign of large dimensions dominates his front lawn. Councilor Alfred E. Vellucci has displayed a marked increase in his usual close scrutiny of all issues. Most recently he has looked into the legality of the acting City Clerk and the injustice of a $5 fine for temporary parking at bus stops...
...Henri Decaë, a superb young craftsman who rode the New Wave (The Four Hundred Blows, The Cousins) to success, bathes all this in an innocent holiday light that makes the crime seem the more hideous by contrast, like a big hairy spider crawling slowly across a travel poster...
Smooth, clear and professional, the Central Park group offers, in the words of Elizabethan Scholar Marchette Chute, "bright, swift Shakespeare, overacted, rather like a poster, as it has to be out of doors; the great thing is that it brings Shakespeare back to his original, wonderfully motley audience." And it brings him back for nothing. In six seasons, Producer Joseph Papp's Shakespeare Festival has played to more than 600,000 people, never charging admission...
...color enlivens its unconventional, simple composition. There is the stunning Cezanne of the boy in a red vest that Mr. Rockefeller owns, impressive for its fusion of linear clarity and almost overwhelming structural solidity. I was most intrigued by Picasso's 1916 still life that has none of the poster-like flatness of his other works from this period...
...announcement of the French movie version of Arthur Miller's The Crucible is dominated by two abstract blobs that on closer inspection turn out to be the gnarled claws of an old witch. A poster for a Federico Fellini film on the demoralization of youth shows youth as a bird hovering over a twisted treelike abstraction symbolizing society. A music festival is announced by a semiabstract landscape still wet with rain and crowned with lowering clouds. Across this tense scene that hovers between sun and storm is written, in an elegant 19th century hand, the signature "F. Chopin...