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...days before his trip to Washington to meet with Reagan, Begin made it even clearer that he would not bow to U.S. demands. Still suffering from a painful hip injury sustained last year, the Prime Minister hobbled to the rostrum at the Pierre Hotel, received a thunderous ovation and then told a United Jewish Appeal gathering that "the Israelis are going to behave as the Czechs in 1938 did not. We shall not succumb to friendly pressure if anyone tries to exercise it on us." Speaking earlier to the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, Begin proclaimed that...
...opened last month at the Whitney Museum in New York, is to put in perspective the developments in American figurative art over the past two decades. It begins with Pop art, with its images of commercial representation; it takes in artists like Alex Katz and Larry Rivers, makes a bow to de Kooning's women, and then sets up some large-scale American realist art from the '70s, contrasted with the perverse and gritty fantasies of Chicago School artists like Jim Nutt and Ed Paschke. From there, it goes to the various neo-and pseudoexpressionist variants that fill...
Carter the perfectionist is evident in the woodshop. He never uses nails or screws, but painstakingly cuts and notches the joints together. He prefers hand tools to electric for more quality. He has actually made several of his own tools; among them are a hollow auger and a bow saw, and they hang neatly on the wall. He began explaining how to cut chair rungs to size and showed a little exasperation when he thought his visitor's attention was wandering. Carter puts his name on all his pieces with a branding iron. And he pointed...
Much as Miss Piggy might like to claim that moi is responsible, the porker boom began long before the Muppets' superstar made her bow. Miss P., sniffs Lucinda Vardey, co-author of the anthology of pig lore, Pigs: A Troughful of Treasures (Macmillan; $14.95), "has done a lot for pig relations, but she is not a true pig. She is purely human and has very few pig qualities." Vardey's collaborator, Sarah Bowman, feels that the pig boomlet has ancient roots. "The love of pigs is an inborn thing," she says. "I have always thought that wallowing...
...Bow to Stern...