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...straight-forward, are carefully composed studies of the textures and geometry of a man-made environment in which, trees and-bushes and the crumpled, black shadow left behind by an unseen figure are exotic and often witty interlopers. One of his best photographs is a picture of the thick base of a tree, its bark the texture of an elephant's hide, surrounded by the long, slender fronds and serrated edges of various plants. Here Russell's sensitive eye has captured a startling range of tones and textures...
...there are too many disturbances due to oversized props or sudden sound effects, it is only because Ibsen's stage directions (for example: "A jet of fire shoots into the air from the yacht, followed by thick clouds of smoke: a hollow report is heard... Gradually the smoke clears away: the ship has disappeared.") demand technical wizardry far beyond the capabilities of the Loeb. Peer Gynt's production staff should have accepted this, instead of burdening the stage with contraptions planned to meet the author's specifications that only sap the play of its dramatic strength...
...must think the Israeli Cabinet especially thick not to have been aware, as events in Cambodia and Viet Nam have shown, just how illusory Kissinger's wizardry really...
...administration is taking its time--and great pains--in issuing its long-awaited prounciamiento on the Student Security Patrol, Tuesday, the two-member faculty panel probing the student nightwatch group over the last three weeks submitted its final, half-inch-thick report to Stephen S.J. Hall, vice president for administration...
Early one morning last February, Eli M. Black, 53-year-old chairman of United Brands Co., created a major mystery by smashing a quarter-inch-thick glass window in his Manhattan office and plunging through it to his death on the pavement 44 floors below. Black's relatives said that they knew of nothing that might have driven the executive, who was a descendant of ten generations of rabbis and a former rabbi himself, to take his life. Business associates also were puzzled-though they noted that his company, a gangling conglomerate, had lost $46.8 million...