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Nonetheless, the symbolism of the decision was potent, and educators reacted accordingly. "This is an example of something that in the abstract looks like good principle but that results in horrible policy," says Robert Zemsky, director of the Institute for Research on Higher Education at the University of Pennsylvania. "It is the wrong message at the wrong time." Even the White House was distancing itself from the policy, pointing out that it came from the bowels of the Education Department. At week's end President Bush called for a review of the decision...
MASTERPIECES OF JAPANESE SCREEN PAINTING by Miyeko Murase (Braziller; $150). The aphorism "Poetry is painting, painting is mute poetry" is exemplified in these 37 exquisite screens painted between the 15th and 19th centuries. A boldly abstract rendering of blue irises from the Edo period is as striking and modern as a Matisse cutout...
...artists have carried on the tradition in the 20th century, with its predilection for spare, abstract, modernist forms. But of those who have, the worthiest successor to Parrhasius is muralist Richard Haas, 54. "Walls present some of the most interesting and challenging surfaces in an urban area," says Haas. "I look at them as large canvases for an artist to come and paint...
...first of a projected 25 cities. They were joined by 13 other skaters, including former world champions Alexander Fadeev, Oleg Vasiliev and Elena Valova of the Soviet Union, and Paul Martini and Barbara Underhill of Canada. From the first otherworldly moment, when the skaters emerge in near darkness, forming abstract clusters and patterns to the accompaniment of a reverie about skating by the 19th century writer Alphonse de Lamartine, to the finale adapted from Carmen, in which a love-sick Boitano seemingly stabs Witt with a glinting knife, this is an ice show for thinking adults...
Teicholz wisely refrains from leading his own tour into the dark terrain of Demjanjuk's mind. "Demjanjuk had given abstract evil a human face," he writes. Only Demjanjuk's victims can describe what it looked like when the mask was removed...