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...stopped cold not more than two inches inside the picture plane. Even with Jackson Pollock, you go on forever and get lost." His own preference is for abstract figural arrangements with the "thumping, alive sense of skin on skin." After painting 25 variations of his wife in the bath, he embarked on a detached but erotic series of paintings that explored the life and strangled loves of John Christie, the meek little Londoner whose hobby was murdering whores. Why Christie? "Most people," says Whiteley, "can escape from the essential meaninglessness of life just with a few beers or a game...
...program, students will transfer to dorms that are equally inviting. Designed to complement the main building, which is the mansion that once belonged to Circusman Charles Ringling, the low-lying residences are grouped around a central plaza and interior courts. Pairs of students will share carpeted study-bedrooms (with bath) opening onto secluded patios...
...vices of Tokyo have been toned down for the Games. Lady Diet members pushed through a law requiring the masseuses in Tokyo's "hotsie bath" emporiums to wear robes instead of bikinis, and the police have enacted a midnight curfew that has already gone into effect...
...hour in the U.S. v. about $1 in Europe and 73? in Japan. Expenses have swollen so fast that a ship such as the United States, built in 1949 for $70 million, would run to some $130 million today. Some U.S. shipyards, including Maine's venerable Bath Iron Works, accept orders at a loss just to keep busy. One result: stocks of U.S. shipbuilders have dropped 40% since...
Despite Menuhin's disregard for audiences, the Bath and Gstaad festivals are more popular than ever. "People are ready for such a novel approach," he says. "Besides, it's the only thing that prevents musicians like myself from getting stale." Menuhin is brimming with new projects, most notably London's Yehudi Menuhin School for musically gifted children, which he founded last year "to preserve our species from extinction." Last week the itch to move along was upon him again. Gazing up at the snow-veined mountains, he mused: "Pretty soon we will be traveling again . . . linking, bridging...