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HELICOPTER GUNSHIP ATTACKS, GROUND RAIDS, more casualties -- the news from Somalia increasingly resembles reports from a war zone. To enforce a cease- fire between rival warlords, four rocket- and cannon-firing U.S. Cobra choppers teamed up with Belgian paratroopers to rout forces advancing on the southern port of Kismayu; reports had eight Somalis killed and about 40 wounded. On Saturday at dusk, 700 U.S. troops backed by helicopters swept into the crossroads town of Afgoi to flush out bandit gangs that have been ambushing supplies en route to the famine belt. Meanwhile, in Mogadishu, U.S. Marine Lance Corporal Anthony Botello...
...Hard Nut, which was seen on PBS last week, debuted in Brussels' Theatre Royal de la Monnaie in 1991. Thanks to Belgian government backing, Morris was able to mount a handsome production, with especially lavish costumes. The largesse makes it even more unfortunate that in the end the choreographer's imagination is defeated by Tchaikovsky. In the second act the music expands opulently, demanding matching grandeur onstage. But Morris wastes the grand pas de deux on a routine group number and sets the explosive coda as a small- scale duet for Marie, the heroine, and the Nutcracker Prince...
...Victor Englebert (Chronicle; $35). During the past 30 years a Belgian photographer-writer lived and traveled with the last nomads of Africa -- the Tuareg, Bororo and Danakil tribes. His diverting account shows many things these supposedly primitive wanderers have to teach the outsider about family values...
...aura. One of these is Eternity (1935). Three pedestals in a museum, with a red rope stretched in front of them. On the left one, a medieval head of Christ. On the right, a head of Dante. In the center, a block of butter. A jab at the contented Belgian stomach, 60 years ago; but today you can't help thinking of the lumps of fat by Joseph Beuys that are enshrined in the world's museums, as though Magritte had been conducting satire in advance...
...some ways his most extreme work comes from this aberrant moment of peinture vache (stupid painting), as he called it -- it's as though, in parodying other Belgian artists (Ensor, and a particularly gross comic illustrator named Deladoes), he touched a demotic rock bottom from which he could only recoil in the end. But Georgette hated the new style, and by 1950 Rene was back to the old one, often repainting versions of images he had first made in the '30s. This recycling fitted his own idea of himself as a craftsman rather than an artist. You could make more...