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ORIGINALLY WRITTEN FOR television, The Trip to Bountiful survived three decades of artistic limbo before making it to the silver screen. Its troubled odyssey explains both why the film is so resolute, and why its scope is so limited. Visually splendid, The Trip to Bountiful is inspiring despite its stark, biting realism. But there is frustratingly little plot development: never is the movie threatening, and rarely is it even surprising. As an audience, we are awed, but not challenged...
...16th century. And there will be a boutique to sell reworkings of famous designer accessories, as well as space to restore clothes. In all, the museum will occupy eleven floors; with the new Fashion Institute nearby, students will have immediate access to 300 years of the past. In scope, the new museum is one of the world's most commanding fashion facilities. Its size and location confer upon it a legitimacy that is automatic and virtually unrivaled. As part of the Louvre, the museum officially makes fashion design a part of the great creative tapestry of the fine arts, taking...
...Glynn is no imitator. He aggressively establishes his own voice and rhythms: "A musty, greasy fog hung in the air, and the lights of the evening looked blunted and strangely hairy . . . He watched people through the scope of the rifle. He traced the progress of heavy women with rolled-down stockings and battered shoes that barely contained the fat of their feet. He followed small children as they hopped over stoops and banged on garbage cans. He zeroed in on the eyeballs of men coming home from work. He knew someone across the street had seen him on the roof...
...Elvis Presley hit on RCA records. By acquiring RCA, GE will strengthen its electronics and defense businesses and take over the NBC television and radio networks. Says GE Chairman John Welch, 50, who will head the combined companies: "We will have the technological capabilities, financial resources and global scope to be able to compete successfully with anyone, anywhere, in every market we serve...
...exhibition gives plenty of scope to the artists of the Brucke and Blaue Reiter groups (there is a particularly fine sequence of early Kandinskys); but it is strong on artists who belonged to neither, such as Wilhelm Lehmbruck, whose war-induced suicide in 1919 at the age of 38 truncated what might have been one of the great sculptural oeuvres of the 20th century. The best coup is to have reunited the two completed parts of Grosz's blistering anti-establishment triptych of 1926, Eclipse of the Sun and Pillars of Society. The latter, with its beer-hall vision...