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Longo is not without entrepreneurial desires. He staged performances, did sculpture and is producing a full-length film, Empire. His art got more ambitious, involving more people both in his pictures and as assistants in the studio. We see the results at Castelli and Metro. They include a large bas-relief in aluminum depicting a horde of struggling Wall Street types: a Roman battle sarcophagus with updated clothes, flanked by ominous, smooth, black effigies of skyscrapers in perspective that recall the architectural renderings of Hugh Ferriss in the '30s. The trouble is that the execution does not carry...
...Historian Arnold Toynbee ranked as the equal of the Parthenon. Very little is known of the people who built and used it, or of the reasons it was permanently abandoned in 1006 after an earthquake and the eruption of the nearby Merapi volcano. Covered with some two miles of bas-reliefs that depict the life of Buddha and the sacred stories of Buddhism, Borobudur is a source of immense national pride to Indonesia, even though Islam is now the religion of more than 95% of its people...
...face up there in the sky looking down on you," the President said. Replied Leahy: "I'll have to go to the Capitol physician first to get my arm put back in the socket." Vermont offered little escape. At Sunday Mass, an usher passing the collection bas ket leaned over and whispered, "Vote against AWACS." Leahy finally...
...issue was the future of the second largest bank on Mitterrand's hit list, the dynamic Compagnie Financière de Paris et des Pays-Bas (Paribas), with assets of $52.2 billion in 1980. After his election last May, Mitterrand expected companies and banks targeted for nationalization to refrain from transferring assets out of the country. But he never made it illegal for them to do so. Seizing on that loophole, Paribas reduced its stake in its Swiss subsidiary, Paribas Suisse S.A., from 72% to less than 50%, thus allowing other interests to gain control. While this was going...
Leary and the CTA contend that the CCA majority's re-interpretation has allowed the current school committee to bas the dismissal of teachers on criteria other than the two factors they consider significant--certification by state and seniority. The present school committee's policy takes into account, among other things, how long a teacher has been working in the system, what subject areas the state has certified him to teach, his racial or ethnic background, and how long he has been teaching in a particular subject area...