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...change reflects new fashions in art. Impassive styles of the 1960s and '70s - the chaste morsels of minimalism, the arctic pleasures of conceptualism - are now well in retreat before a wave of gesture, expressionism and all the tumult of "painterly" painting. Encouraged by a climate favoring vigor and personality, artists are propelling the brush past the borders of the canvas or turning out sculpturally elaborated frames that complement work in which the hand prevails. At the same time, a general drift away from resolutely flat abstractions and a return to representational painting have revived notions of the picture...
...machines can also be a little spooky, metaphysically spooky. There was a tale about the archipelago called Nova Zembla, which was discovered in the 16th century, high in the Arctic Circle. A ship's crew was stranded there, frozen in. The air was so cold, the story said, that when the sailors spoke, their words crystallized in mid-air and remained there. Presently a thaw arrived, and all the words, warmed up, came cascading down in a tremendous, unintelligible din. The owner of an answering machine knows that there may come a moment when the machine...
...telephone service. With state-operated liquor stores shuttered, restaurant wine and whisky stocks were being drained by thirsty diners. Indeed, as a strike by 11,000 government and private-sector employees crippled public services in Iceland, supplies of almost everything that makes life interesting on the edge of the Arctic Circle were disappearing faster than icicles in a spring thaw...
...They look more alive than dead." I So said Physical Anthropologist Owen Beattie last week of the three British sailors he and his colleagues at the University of Alberta had dug out from Arctic permafrost. Buried in 1846, the corpses are in flawless condition, down to the 19th century outfits and funeral head wrappings. The hands of one of the corpses, says Beattie, are long and delicate, like a pianist's. Petty Officer John Torrington, 20, left, Able Seaman John Hartnell, 25, and Royal Marine William Braine, 34, died after the two ships of Sir John Franklin...
...firms happy. He is committed to revising the country's 1980 National Energy Program, a controversial act that allowed the government to claim a 25% stake retroactively in oil discoveries. The legislation infuriated U.S. oil companies, which have substantial holdings throughout Canada and off the Atlantic and Arctic coasts. Mulroney will also overhaul the Foreign Investment Review Agency, a 1974 Trudeau creation that monitors companies wishing to do business in Canada to ensure that their activities are in the country's interest. FlRA's regulations, however, drove many foreign businessmen away; in the past three years...