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Sweetness of Touch. Light, considered as a sign of divine immanence, fascinated Ensor. It gives a special tension to his skeleton pieces, mask paintings and the street scenes of his best years, from about 1885 to 1900: glitter and death, dark subjects and brisk high tones. The brutally emphatic imagery was created with a disconcerting sweetness of touch. Skeleton Painter in His Atelier, 1896, typifies this: the surface is almost as pretty as a Bonnard (though not nearly so well painted), and the very fact that Ensor was not trying to use illusionist tricks to convince viewers of the skeleton...
...shirt reads, "The Ivy League: A Tradition of Men in Exciting Positions," and the Harvard track team sold over one hundred of them at Cornell last weekend. But while the underwear market was brisk, the Crimson finished a dull fifth at the Indoor Heptagonal Championships...
...with 20/20 hindsight, as the product of an "essentially feminine" sensibility, a painting as full of style and chic as an egg is of albumin. But is the kind of sensibility in its design-the springy black silhouette of blouse and tunic relieved by one dash of white, the brisk notation of the face smeared and flecked by the black lace veil, the emphatic circumflex of the painted fan behind the girl's head-essentially different from that of Degas, Cassatt's mentor? Stylishness does not go by gender; perhaps it never did. Cecilia Beaux's Sita...
With tax-cut and spending stimuli, the economy is expected to grow in 1977 at a moderate rate of just under 5%, moving up to a fairly brisk 6% or so in the latter part of the year. At that pace, unemployment would drop from the current 8.1% to just under 7% at year's end. That would still be far above Carter's ultimate goal?he hopes to cut unemployment to 6½% in 1977 and to 4½% by 1980. But the economy would certainly be moving fairly well and starting to generate the extra tax revenues that Carter says...
Despite the waves of tourists and newsmen who are washing over Plains (pop. 683) and providing brisk business for the Peanut Museum, the sandwich shop, and the new stores selling what Miss Lillian calls "Jimmy-things," the main pastime still seems to be memory-as it is in all villages, Southern or otherwise, where people lead lives of work and family. Stop most anyone you see-they're generally stoppable-and he or she will soon be spinning you a web of recollection to entertain you both. They tend to start with Carters, since that...