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...power tens and 20s should have a strong psychological effect, but should not disrupt the boat's rhythm, Syttone said, adding. "It's good that we got it out of our system before Yale...
...just had to give her the brush. Said he: "Yes, you are a Varga Girl." Peters, who wore a camisole for her sittings and bared her shoulders and little else, couldn't have agreed more: "I feel that I look like those ladies from the '20s, '30s and '40s. That's why I wanted him to paint...
DIED. Alexander Brook, 81, American painter; of a heart attack; in Sag Harbor, N.Y. Ignoring the later popularity of abstract expressionism, Brook relentlessly pursued the realistic style and romantic mood that brought him early success in the '20s and informed his work-graceful nudes, broad, brooding landscapes, portraits of young girls caught in somber moods. Said he: "My approach is immediate. I try to maintain that first quick impression, that first quick look...
...Salvatore Vitale spent eight days accompanying Muslim rebel units in the mountains near the Pakistan border. They were witnesses when a rebel patrol spotted a Soviet vehicle traveling cautiously through a gully, raked it with automatic weapons fire and killed the driver. His passenger, a lieutenant in his late 20s, was taken prisoner...
DIED. Oskar Kokoschka, 93, Austrian-born expressionist; in Villeneuve, Switzerland. In his 20s the fiery, eccentric Kokoschka painted some of the great portraits of the century, which explored the recesses of the psyche, even as his compatriot Freud was probing it. With Kirchner, Nolde and Max Beckmann, among others, he was a founder of the style of radical figurative art known as German expressionism. After World War I he turned to bright cityscapes, and during his last years in Switzerland, to Alpine landscapes...