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...drawing." This is an understatement, if anything. It takes the eye a while to realize that each line in this drawing, though given the incisiveness and spring of a mark etched with a point, seemingly carved into the paper, is in fact done with the tip of a brush; the delicate gradations of cross-hatching, which do not merely record patches of light and shadow but carry the eye around the forms with irresistible energy, represent an extraordinary alliance of analytic thought and manual control. Not all the drawings in the show are on this inspired level (how could they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Emblems of a Lost Tradition | 5/6/1985 | See Source »

Dewitt can handle it, of course, having taken Professor Hitchcock's film course. "The Psychological Thriller in the 50's and 60's," last fall. Should a brush-up be necessary. Rear Window (Science Center B) is circulating again and so is your loving child's brilliant essay about...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Movies to Make Mom Proud | 5/2/1985 | See Source »

...least partly earned for all of them by those who were barren-minded the devotees and bigots, who were often immensely shrewd but were seldom immensely intelligent. How could a Protestant God have stone shed such stupid enthusiasts?" David once burst out in his diary, after a brush with a pair of narrow fundamentalists...

Author: By Paul W. Green, | Title: Fear and Loathing in China | 5/1/1985 | See Source »

...white Afrikaners. Before leaving, he would witness the death and imprisonment of many friends and would himself become actively involved in the resistance movement. What results is a compelling portrait of daily life under apartheid. And while Swanson is more than capable of painting with a broad geopolitical brush, it is his painstaking illustration of the South African people themselves that proves most powerful...

Author: By Holly A. Idelson, | Title: Uncovering the Truth | 5/1/1985 | See Source »

...netmen's closest brush with defeat came at third doubles. Cornell's Connell and Paul Meehan took Peter Palandjian and Stanley to a tie-breaker and had several match points before the Crimson duo finally pulled out the final game, 12-10, in the tie-breaker, to earn a 10-9 triumph...

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, | Title: Netmen Blow By Cornell, 9-0 | 4/29/1985 | See Source »

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