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Rape or Redress? Against this chilling backdrop the Senate, after months of delay, last week took up the emotional subject of how much gas prices should be allowed to rise in order to coax more gas out of the ground and into pipelines to consuming states. At stake were billions of dollars that gas producers and pipeline operators might reap in higher prices, the jobs of workers in industries dependent upon gas, and the comfort of millions of home dwellers. Oklahoma Republican Dewey F. Bartlett warned that if the Democrats succeeded in keeping prices under tight control, gas producers would...
...revolutionize fashion photography by focusing beyond cosmetic beauty on the human side of his models, has put over 100 portraits on view, and prints of 75 on sale. Like that of Sculptress June Leaf, 46, most photographs show an unsmiling subject, slightly off center, standing before a plain white backdrop. "June is one of the most beautiful women I've ever photographed," said Avedon of Leaf. "What came forward was not the fact that she has a beautiful face, which she has, but her quality as a woman." If Avedon's subjects are beautiful, so are his prices...
...older woman is unable to forage for food, unable to adapt to the callousness of the struggle. From being herself a child needing protection. Emily has become a protector, assuming an adult's responsibility to take care of others. But only the narrator can provide a backdrop to Emily's growth, for she alone can see a continuum, the "hinterland which had formed" the girl. Somehow, miraculously, the narrator is able to see through the walls of her apartment to Emily's past, where she watches her pre-holocaust infancy and childhood: the insensitive mother, the kindly but officious father...
...czarist Russia makes a great backdrop for absurd humor because the ghost of Dostoevsky and his philosophic pals allows Allen to capitalize on the incongruity of ancient questions and modern options ("Moses was right. The good man shall dwell in the House of the Lord for six months with an option...
Nowhere is the renaissance more apparent than in New York City, now the dance capital of the world. This spring Manhattan will provide the backdrop for 16 world premieres at New York City Ballet's Ravel Festival. Galas will be presented by Martha Graham, New York City Ballet and, in the summer, American Ballet Theater. Two foreign companies - the U.S.S.R.'s Bolshoi and Germany's Stuttgart Ballet - will perform at the Metropolitan Opera House. One wonders, in fact, if Diaghilev's Paris or Petipa's St. Petersburg ever had it so good...