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...Only Cubist Town. The first two sections, dealing with the period 1900-50, are at least competent. The history they describe is more settled and hence readily encapsulated. The "period rooms"-unconvincing reconstructions of the Gertrude Stein salon at 27, Rue de Fleurus, the "291" gallery in which Alfred Stieglitz introduced Matisse, Brancusi and modern photography to a tiny coterie in New York, and Piet Mondrian's Manhattan studio, among other places-are tackily made and none too accurate. But the paintings fare better...
...cluttered gallery on Rue Laffitte in Paris, stacked floor to ceiling with rolled canvases and folios of prints, Paul Cézanne, Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse had their first one-man shows. (Cézanne was 53 when Vollard "discovered" him in 1892 by buying five oils at auction for a paltry 900-odd francs.) Buying cheap and selling dear, he got in on the ground floor of Gauguin, Van Gogh, Bonnard, Vuillard, Renoir and Chagall as well. He then ploughed his fortune back into the publication of artists' prints and deluxe editions of texts classical and modern...
...about 7.30 a.m., Hamilton Jordan arrives at the White House by bus, or is driven from his Capitol Hill home by his wife Nancy-causing him daily to rue Jimmy Carter's decision to strip his assistants of limousine service. But one plus about his job as the key senior adviser to the President is the fact that he does not have to cope with rush-hour traffic. He comes to work too early and leaves too late...
...spirit. The French of Canada, proud of their traditions and staunch in their Roman Catholicism, felt repressed by Anglo-Saxon Protestantism. In 1955, when Maurice Richard, the great Montreal forward, was suspended by Clarence Campbell, the league president, for scuffling with an official, French fans smashed shop windows along Rue Ste. Catherine. Although this was a melee, not a rational debate, popular sociologists went as wild as the fans. Les Canadiens, they suggested, were not merely a hockey team. Rather they embodied all that might have been had Montcalm, not Wolfe, carried that September...
...also involves Reynolds, a former stunt man, in a couple of nice action sequences, including a high-velocity motorboat chase and an imaginatively staged concluding set-to with his former friend. Finally, there is a leave-taking between Reynolds and Hutton that is lightly, rightly touched with romantic rue...