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...this world, women's sexual escapades, no matter how manipulative, never go punished. Cinemax's Emmanuelle, for instance, is an ageless sorceress who spirits herself into the bodies of men and women all over the world (though mostly places like Cannes and Bali) to help them realize their romantic promise. Like most of the women who populate cable erotica, Emmanuelle limns the fantasies and calls the shots. There we have it: sex goddesses Gloria Steinem can love...
...space also folds in and out, shallow and buckling, like a screen. Sometimes the brushstrokes are languid and creamy, but they are interspersed with a stuttering, rough calligraphy that might have been drawn with a twig. The broken grid half-conceals figures and friezes remembered from China, India and Bali, mixed with recollections of marketplaces, rituals and washing days...
...would think, all the first-rate Western artists of our fading century are known and labeled. Not necessarily. Consider Ian Fairweather, a Scot by birth, who, after a long life in China, Bali and Australia, died in 1974 at age 83. Totally unknown in America and Europe, he was the best abstract painter-though "abstract" does no justice to the imagistic subtlety of his work-that Australia ever harbored, and one of the very few modern artists to make a convincing bridge between Eastern calligraphic traditions and Western drawing. He was also-suspect though the term has become...
Echelman, serving in her first year as the Adams resident art tutor, said she got the idea from her participation in a similar project with 50 other artists at the National Art School in Bali, Indonesia...
...visitors get more than water for their tickets ($38 per adult during the peak May-October season). Seagaia also has the Bali Hai zone, where an artificial volcano explodes every 15 min. with a thundering boom and a plume of smoke. The inside of the volcano is open for viewing -- and leads all who dare enter into the Dragon Sanctuary, where a skeletal creature is enshrined in light amid spooky music. Nearby is an adventure ride called Water Crash -- a drip-dry, 5-minute introduction to white-water rafting. The rapids are projected onto a screen as the raft bucks...