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...fair example of Wiley's bricolage, with its rusty pickax snagged, like an unwanted anchor, on a knotted line from an improvised fishing pole, its ragged sheet of ox hide, its confusingly labeled ("Fresh Bait," "Nietzsche") objects perched on a raw wood shelf. They can only be decoded in terms of Wiley's own convoluted memories, but their point has more to do with a remark of Marcel Duchamp, whom Wiley vastly admires: "There is no solution because there is no problem." This openness and tolerance toward objects and meanings is the essential subject of Wiley...
...sounded almost like a dream ten years ago, when a syndicate headed by Karim, the young Aga Khan, announced the development of Sardinia's Costa Smeralda as a multimillion-dollar superresort. Hotels have since been abuilding, tourists arriving, yachts dropping anchor. But then it began to look like a dream again. Said Karim: "We have not found the expected support in Sardinia." Moved by the jet set's response, Karim promptly reversed himself. Once more the dream seems real...
Charney and Veronis chose Kriss for his "broad background, which makes him an ideal anchor man for the total team of professionals we plan to assemble." The new Review will no longer reflect the personal tastes of a single editor, as it did those of Norman Cousins for 31 years. "The emphasis," says Kriss, "will be on informing the reader rather than grabbing him by the throat...
...Canadian government expressed a "deep sense of disquiet" and, like Egan, held the Administration accountable for any aftereffects that might be caused by the explosion. Taking a more direct approach, a Canadian group chartered a minesweeper, Greenpeace, Too, and sailed from Vancouver for Amchitka, where they intended to anchor outside the three-mile limit in hopes of persuading Washington to cancel the test. Japan, Peru and Sweden have asked that the test be canceled...
Light winds prevailed on Saturday, allowing completion of only one of the three planned races. The Crimson saw a seemingly secure second place evaporate in the thin air to a dismal seventh. Yale's Pat Seaver dropped anchor to sip beer until the changing tide carried the bull-dogs across the finish line in first place...