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Last week the new Miró paintings were on view in Paris' Galerie Maeght-to mixed critical reception. For the most part, the childlike "signs," the brilliant and charming fantasies were gone. In their place were some small paintings on burlap, priced as high as $16,000, which consisted of little more than a few black forms swimming through solid color. There was a whirling constellation, a burning sun-shape inside an amoeba-like splash, a few nebulous and milky canvases that were each rather uncertainly called "Painting...
...Self as deity pursued power (Faust) and pleasure (Don Juan). It achieved satiety, the rake's progress "from pain to ennui, from lust to disgust," which Fitch finds symbolically typified time and again in Aldous Huxley's heroes. At the end of Point Counter Point, the lovers, Burlap and Beatrice, "pretended to be two little children and had their bath together. And what a romp they had! The bathroom was drenched with their splashings. Of such is the Kingdom of Heaven." The logic of self-realization, as Huxley saw it, divided men into two camps-the Good-Timers...
...week, at a farewell party thrown for him by Michigan newsmen, Williams raffled off his vicuna. "We were cleaning out one of our closets before moving out of our house, and there it was," explained Soapy. "At first, we thought it was nothing more than an old piece of burlap." Exited Williams, to a serenade of "Bye, bye, Soapy...
...many of them, mere paint and canvas are not enough: a novel end can apparently justify any means. Manolo Millares, 34, dips burlap into white paint, bunches and tears it, smears and daubs it with black. If he ends up with something vaguely resembling a figure, he calls it Homunculus, and some of his homunculi look rather like decayed and mangled ghosts. Antoni Tapies, 36, who abandoned the University of Barcelona law school to take up painting in 1946, heaps his canvases with paint, then gouges, cuts and scrapes. His Three Stains on Grey Space is exactly what it says...
...city of Lucknow, the temperature hit 114° and stayed there for days. At filling stations, attendants piled water-soaked burlap bags atop gasoline pumps to keep the mechanisms working, and it was standard practice for motorists to leave their car hoods up in the all-day parking lots. Hospitals were filled with heat-prostration cases. More than 150 died...