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...Tlingit art was infiltrated by white gold-seekers. That glaring Thunderbird and his ilk must have scared a good number of interloping foreigners back to safety and Seattle. But that glorious beast has been toned down enough by the 19th century classicism of the MFA rotunda to loose this power. On the whole, it's a good thing. People should not be scared away from this show...
Screen Rights. Counterfeiter Pat Yim (serving three years) sold four proposed TV sketches to Hawaii Five-O, one of which has been used as the basis for an episode. Bank Robber Edward Bunker (doing five years) recently sold the screen rights to his first novel, No Beast So Fierce, to Actor Dustin Hoffman for $80,000. Bonanno had a piece on prison life on the New York Times's Op-Ed page and has sold a story to Tennis magazine. Bank Robber Hank Garrison (now serving a ten-year term) just sold a story to Stag magazine...
...policy, and a government which is willing to supervise the transition from capitalist mayhem to a more controlled and equitable society. I do not believe that capitalism will collapse tomorrow, but too many individuals in Britain and elsewhere are being knocked over and trampled upon every time the sick beast lashes out in an attempt to preserve its balance. The sicker the system, the more vicious will be the measures needed to make people heed its howling...
...illuminated manuscript. Yet the design of an episode like St. Michael's casting down of Satan and the rebel angels has an epic amplitude: the heavens part in a frill of white clouds, and from it the archangel plunges down to drive his spear into the seven-headed Beast; the coiling rush and flutter of his peach-colored robe is full of an ecstatic energy that belies the flat, heraldic space...
...unicorn cycles, praise is an impertinence. They vary in conceptual density. The Cluny Lady with the Unicorn set is a relatively straightforward metaphor of the five senses, so that the mythic beast gazes at itself in a mirror to signify Sight. By contrast, the Cloisters' unicorn hunt is a highly complicated and frequently obscure allegory of the passion of Christ, mixed with references to courtly and profane love. But in each, a way of seeing reality that was both freshly direct and symbolic is embedded in a matrix of almost unbelievable formal beauty. Detail by detail, this...