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...Possible. The report began with the stark facts: in 1963 heart-artery diseases caused 55% of all U S deaths, and cancer 16%. Strokes killed 201,000; diseases of other arteries outside the brain combined with diseases of the heart to kill 793,000. Cancer killed 285,000. Many of these deaths were "premature," judged by the fact that they carried off people under...
...last night of the run, and then without any idea of how memorable and moving the performance would prove to be. Though there was a problem of inaudibility for those far back in the theater, and the lighting was rather dim in Act I, the use of Stark Young's translation and quality of acting and direction made this an extraordinary theatrical event... Personally I would like to see it a second time, and perhaps a third. Mark Roskill Assistant Professor Department of Fine Arts
...decolletage was as breathcatching as the Grande Corniche, her hair was hennaed, her makeup stark white; her expressive arms were encased in black gloves to the knobby elbow, and from her thin, lacquered lips slipped a repertory of chansons more Rabelaisian, Evangelist Dwight Moody once grieved, than any "Sodom ever produced." That was French Disease Yvette Guilbert, the ex-seamstress whose reputation became as luminous and lurid as the Divine Sarah or Eleonora Duse...
JAKE: The buildings' stark shells enwrapping the fervid human dramas unrolling in moments of lightning-fast perception before my very eyes so that I can scarce catch my breath between sobs...
...British have already scored with Bridget Riley, 32 (TIME, May 1), whose stark black-and-white patterns have made viewers physically sick. She generally lets craftsmen execute her designs, has a standoffishness and coolth matched by her countryman, Steele. "These pictures are not necessarily meant to be looked at," says Steele. Another Englishman is Cambridge-educated Michael Kidner (below), at 46 one of the oldest of the flicker boys. Years ago he bashed away at abstract expressionism, but, says he, "never convinced myself that the gesture I was making had much significance." Then he learned that he could make people...