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...Art of the Campaign I couldn't help noticing the democratic slant to Joe Klein's article on John McCain's campaign of lies [Sept. 29]. In the same issue, a two-page chart showed a good many half truths and lies credited to the Democrats too. Seems to me that Barack Obama and Joe Biden did as well or better when it came to distorting the facts. Dick Riddle, Tonasket, Washington...
...moral equivalency" between McCain's brand of lying and Obama's, with the former's ranging anywhere from the "annoying to the sleazy." And Klein could think of only one instance when Obama crossed the line (though never calling it a lie), whereas McCain has turned it into an art form. Absent from the list of Obama's "lies" is his declaration that McCain actually is O.K. with the war in Iraq continuing for 100 years if need be. That pronouncement far exceeds any exaggerations from the McCain camp. The media's love affair with Obama is well documented. Nevertheless...
...moved on to make other works in series, notably the black on black canvases from 1964. In each of them, a black square rides on a background only very slightly less black. Rothko wasn't fiddling with an art-historical endgame here, trying to see how flat and stark he could make his pictures. The Black-Form paintings, as they are known, are emblems for existence itself, statements at a near-molecular level of detail about the minimal order necessary to distinguish life from the disorder of death. Indeed, look at them long enough and they make you think...
...agree to provide work for a restaurant in the newly completed Seagram Building. The commission came by way of Philip Johnson, the American architect and peerless cultural middleman, who had collaborated on the design of the Four Seasons and had also arranged for New York's Museum of Modern Art to buy its first Rothko. So it may have been partly out of gratitude that Rothko agreed to a project that was in every way wrong for him. The Four Seasons was glittering, elegant and worldly. Rothko, then 54, was intense, anguished and obsessed with producing images...
...school children, joined the World Haiku Club and the Haiku Society of America, and even appeared on Romanian national television to urge the teaching of haiku to all elementary school students. But Coman’s talents are not limited to writing haikus. She is concentrating in history of art and architecture with a secondary in Visual and Environmental Studies, and is currently working on Professor Cranston’s new book, “The Secret Island and the Enticing Flame.” Two of her surrealist paintings, inspired by the poems in the book, will be featured...