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Visitors to Clido Meireles' first North American retrospective bend iron with their eyes. In Meireles' exhibition at the Boston Institute of Contemporary Art (his only U.S. venue), he presents the viewer with an open box containing two iron bars, one straight and one curved. The title of the work tells us they are "To be Bent with the Eyes." Beneath the bars, a graph paper background adds pseudo-scientific validity to the notion that over time our vision will exert some kind of material force on the art object. Here Meireles makes us his collaborator, and we can only wonder...
...wouldn't compromise because of it. I don't think we will bend over backwards because some Faculty do not want to teach," he says. "The rigor and the seriousness of the Core is going to go on as it has for the past 15 years...
...weapon: electronic eavesdropping. First, the history: on Dec. 21, Gingrich gave the House ethics committee a statement admitting he had given it wrong information--inadvertently, he said. He agreed not to launch a G.O.P. spin campaign to refute the charges. But then he appeared at least to bend that promise in a conference call with G.O.P. leaders, when he strategized about the content and timing of the statements they would put out. Congressman John Boehner joined in by cell phone from Florida; a scanner picked up the chat, and it was recorded by a local couple. On Friday excerpts appeared...
...bode for the electorate? Unfortunately, it means more of the partisan wrangling and posturing that so many of us have grown to loathe. Only in Washington is it fashionable to suggest, "If it's broke, don't fix it," and find that advice being taken literally. BILL GEMAR Gila Bend, Arizona...
RESIGNING. LOU HOLTZ, 59, Notre Dame football coach; after 11 seasons; in South Bend, Indiana...