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...sheen and transparency. The subjects of his earlier paintings seem to have been chosen to show what happens to light on every sort of surface-the hammered gold of a chalice, the sleek moist interior of an oyster or the pock-marked ivory of a hornbill's beak. Raffael undertook an inspection of their varied skins on the level, if not of the cell, at least on that of the pore. Each point where light hit the tiniest break of texture or color was set down in a curious, tightly circling calligraphy that resembled beads, or agglomerations of frog...
Thus President Nixon, in his April 30, 1970, television speech to the nation justifying the U.S. and South Vietnamese incursion into the Parrot's Beak of Cambodia, denied any previous American military action in the officially neutral kingdom of Prince Norodom Sihanouk. In fact, as a result of testimony by a former Air Force officer before the Senate Armed Services Committee last week, it was revealed that the President had for the previous 14 months personally authorized the secret bombing of Cambodia, a clandestine campaign by B-52s that poured over 100,000 tons of explosives...
Although a few friendly congressional leaders, Senator Barry Goldwater for one, were apprised of the secret bomb runs, the Senate Armed Services Committee was repeatedly told that no bombs were dropped on Cambodia before the April 29 invasion into the Parrot's Beak. An official declassified Pentagon list of all American attacks in the area, provided Democratic Senator Harold E. Hughes this spring, showed "zero" bombing in Cambodia before the 1970 incursion. Last week Hughes called the false reporting system "official deception" and demanded the resignations of the responsible officials...
...detail. If one can judge from this show, Ernst has recovered in old age the ebullience that can make him imagine an abstract sun setting over an abstract Arizona desert, re-create from memory a fine old image of Adam and Eve, or reduce a bird to one aggressive beak above a red colored square. He may not be getting better but it is clear that, even past 80, he is still inventing...
...head began to verge on geometrical abstraction. The domed skull had its remaining hair brushed flat, each strand meticulously parallel to its neighbor; the two neat creases on the pale forehead; the paired circles of his spectacle frames, and the thin mouth joined with utmost precision to his beak of a nose by two engraved lines. It was the face of no compromise-austere and possessed by a forbidding moral rectitude. No artist ever looked more like his own work...