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Basically, Picasso cared nothing about civilization or its discontents. He admired, and tried to embody, the child and the savage, both prodigies of appetite. To feel, to seize, to penetrate, to abandon: these were the verbs of his art, as they were of his cruelly narcissistic relationships with the "goddesses or doormats," as he categorized the women in his life. Hence, the energy of The Embrace, 1925, its lovers grappling on a sofa in their orifice-laden knot of apoplectic randiness. Hence, too, the fear (amounting sometimes to holy terror, but more often to a witch-killing misogyny) that emanates...
Fortunately, the Islanders did not abandon their experiment in role reversal. After such a disastrous regular season, they put together a miraculous playoff record, sweeping through the early rounds to reach the finals at last. The Islanders hope the trend continues, for their Stanley Cup opponents are those somewhat reformed thugs at the other end of the New Jersey Turnpike, the Philadelphia Flyers, proud possessors of the league's best regular-season mark: 48 wins, 20 ties and 12 losses, including a record-setting 35-game undefeated streak...
...takeoff on 1930s movie musicals. Using Grauman's Chinese Theater as aspic, it captures the clichés, the formulas, the juicily idiotic emotional punch lines of the period. Singing with slyly ironic comic abandon, Jeanette MacDonald (Peggy Hewett) fondles a life-size cardboard cutout of Nelson Eddy, never the most mobile of performers...
...liberal theologians? Rifkin himself admits the change is virtually unnoticed. One spectacular example is Billy Graham's conversion from nuke-the-Russian-Antichrist-cold-warrior to disarmament-peacenik-one-worlder, but Graham knows he is in a very small minority. Is the Full Gospel Businessmen's Fellowship likely to abandon the profit margin for a few more trees and whales just because Rifkin thinks the charismatics should pick up this redefinition as their marching banner? If anything, the Pentecostal revival is a reaction against the new values, against social innovations and moral liberalizations and for the American way of life...
...another action, the ACSR decided in a nearly unanimous vote not to ask the Eastman Kodak Company to abandon its operations in South Africa. Committee members thought the company's presence might benefit both Black and white factory workers, Richard Valeely, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences representative to the ACSR, said yesterday...