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...Dreadful Lemon Sky (No. 16, 1975), McGee has had troubles of his own. He has become increasingly morose, and the cases he handled were no real challenge. In the middle of the journey the Big was "embedded in a life I had some curious way outgrown. I an artifact, genus boat bum, a pale-eyed, shambling, gangling, knuckly man, without enough unscarred hide left to make a decent lamp shade. Watchful appraiser of the sandy-rumped beach ladies. Creaking knight errant, yawning at the thought of the next dragon." John MacDonald acknowledges that his hero "could not have gone...
...Constantinople in 1453, the Turks had been snapping off the Venetian colonies in the eastern Mediterranean. Portuguese caravels, rounding the tip of Africa in increasing numbers, had taken away Venice's old monopoly of the spice trade. Venice was turning from an imperial power into a cultural artifact. As such, she was one of the most visited cities of Europe. For an artist, a trip to see the Bellinis and Titians was an obligatory part of his education-as necessary, if he wanted to paint murals in the grand manner, as studying the classical ruins of Rome. Painters flocked...
...isolate Adams' contribution to the language of photography, the show at MOMA concentrates on his landscapes. (The only human artifact in the exhibit is a low stone wall in front of an early view of Yosemite Valley.) The show enables one to see Adams' early and late prints from the same negative, and the difference is interesting. The early ones are of ravishing delicacy; they have a subtlety of discrimination, a continuity of surface tone that are essentially lyric. But by middle age, Adams' work began to shift. In the darkroom, he was conducting from the negative's score?pushing...
Even as the theme-artifact market was booming, another restaurant trend was developing. That day, of the two most In restaurants in Los Angeles, one was operating without a sign of identification, the other with an unlisted phone number. In both, the decor could only be called early tool shed...
...else and there was no intent of any kind to ever seek publicity for what we were doing. So that to some extent the impression may have been created because the newspapers picked it up that Harvard was purporting to provide the answer for everyone else--that is an artifact of the media and that has nothing to do with what we were trying to accomplish, nor did the interest in the media arise in any way from our efforts. So whether or not other colleges profit in any way or adapt their curriculum from ours is something that...