Word: artists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Coles has moved on to the Southwest, lending his ear and-because he is an artist as well as a psychiatrist-his imagination and his heart to the words of the Chicanes and Indians. Farewell to the South, largely a collection of Coles' magazine articles, forms a kind of passing commentary upon his major work...
...Leonardo's case, of course, the problems are colossal. The artist was a universal genius. He was also literally a secretive bastard, who invented a way of writing (right to left and upside down) to protect his plans and musings from prying eyes. Almost nothing is known about his private life...
...produced by RAI, the Italian national television company that aired it in Italy last fall -never resolves the hard choice between truth and drama. This week's episode opened with the death of Leonardo in the arms of France's King Francis I, the patron of the artist's declining years. Creaky and inspirational, the scene at least has a style that might grow on a sympathetic viewer. Alas, hardly has Leonardo expired when a young "guide" in a modern business suit comes on camera, pointing out that the scene is pure fiction, lifted from admiring contemporary...
Quick Change. The flu bug is a quick-change artist. It undergoes what scientists call antigenic alterations, or periodic transformations in biochemical makeup. As a result, vaccines developed to defend against one virus generation-usually too late to do much good-generally prove altogether powerless against the next. In addition, natural immunities acquired through exposure to one year's microbes may offer no protection against later models...
...envisioned that out of a military apocalypse, somewhere in the world, hidden during the period of tribulation, would emerge a freemasonry of scientists, engineers and technicians who would create a new rule of efficiency and would clean up the world after the mess. They would put away the old artist, the old military warlord and the politician with his raging ideology. Well, when we do put away these people, we can't kid ourselves that we're not also putting away the bourgeois middle-class democratic system...