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Threatened by Reform. In that atmosphere of shattered illusions, the Tupamaros were born. Raul Sendic, the movement's leader, who was arrested last week in Montevideo, started off by leading cane field workers on a march to the capital. Then he turned to more clandestine methods of harassing the government. The movement, now composed of perhaps 3,000 full-time activists, consists largely of youthful leftists from Uruguay's middle class, but it has also attracted murderous ideologues and common criminals...
...short, powerfully-built man, he bulges with fat and money. But his fat, instead of making him look slovenly, molds his face and body into a statue of a Rodin here, overwhelming and powerful in its grotesque beauty. He walks slowly and carries a cane andsends his daughters to Foxcroft and last week set a record for a buyer at Keeneland by spending $986,000 for 14 yearling horses...
...level of a forum of hate and character assassination. That junior Senator from Wisconsin is long gone, and the years have had their effect on the senior Senator from Maine. Now 72, Margaret Chase Smith travels the Senate corridors on a motorized golf cart, or she uses a walking cane. But she remains among the most thoughtful and respected members of the Senate, her rose in place, her bearing erect, her hair lustrously silver. Last week, precisely two decades to the day of her anti-McCarthy speech, she stood in the Senate chamber, again making an eloquent and pointed appeal...
Under the shadow of a Venetian palazzo, the figure strides onstage in the regalia of an affluent Victorian gentleman -top hat, frock coat, gloves and cane...
Authentic though the angst is, Segal's images tend to wear it as a dandy wears his cane-as a badge rather than an expression of individuality. The tension Segal achieves between the intimacy of his situations and the stiff, objective distance of the plaster effigies is often haunting. But even ghosts can turn predictable. And sometimes one feels that, inside the plaster man, there is a plastic one signaling...