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...Middle East. 472 Mass Ave., Cambridge. 497-0576. Downstairs: Blink on Thurs., March 16. Sirensong on Sat., March 18. Upstairs: The Premieres on Thursday, March 16. Skavengers on Fri., March 17. Skud Mountain Boys on Sat., March...
...blink of an eye, for less thanten seconds," said Barber. "As I turned around, Isaw the tail section hit the roof...
When art first appeared, presumably around 40,000 B.P., it spread quickly. Within a mere 5,000 years-barely the blink of an eye on paleontological time scales-the work of early artists popped up in several corners of the globe. Archaeologists have found more than 10,000 sculpted and engraved objects in hundreds of locations across Europe, southern Africa, northern Asia and Australia. The styles range from realistic to abstract, and the materials include stone, bone, antler, ivory, wood, paint, teeth, claws, shells and clay that have been carved, sculpted and painted to represent animals, plants, geometric forms, landscape...
EVEN AMONG FAMOUS ARTISTS there are degrees of neglect. Nobody could call the Abstract Expressionist painter Franz Kline overlooked. Not when his pictures have sold for a million dollars and up. Not with his signature style recognizable in an eye blink, the black girderlike slashes on the white ground. But compared with Jackson Pollock, who has been a household word -- well, in some households anyway -- for the past quarter-century, Kline is positively obscure. It's like comparing Sal Mineo with James Dean. Both were in the movie Rebel Without a Cause, but only one of them car-smashed...
...flat failure; as it was about to expire Thursday, the Moscow news agency TASS reported that "not a single gun has been turned in." On Saturday, Moscow issued a harsher threat: missile strikes against strategic targets in Grozny if the Chechens did not disarm. The rebels refused to blink. Said a spokesman: "When the bombing starts, we will first go to our shelters. When it is finished, the command will go out to our forces to defend the city against the Russian attack...