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Over the past few years its stolidly trendy Swedish director, Karl Pontus Hulten, has emitted much politic cant about how Le Pompidoglio would not be a museum in the traditional (read "elitist") sense, but rather a kind of cross between a people's palace and a pinball machine-a transcultural, interdisciplinary omnivorium. The real question was how the place might work as a museum. On seeing "Paris-New York," one wishes the question had not been asked. The show is a curatorial botch...
...York Democrat: "We are paying $7.5 billion for green coffee beans [this year], when we paid $1.5 billion for the same amount last year. That means the American consumer is increasing foreign aid to coffee-producing countries by $6 billion-without congressional approval." Perhaps-but says Fausto Cantù Peña, director of the Mexican Coffee Institute: "The increase in coffee prices may do more for the peasants of Latin America than the entire Alliance for Progress...
While impotence can be a byproduct of the 250,000 prostate operations performed annually in the U.S.-crucial muscles and nerves must be cut in the more radical procedures-sexual function is preserved in most cases. Cant cites the encouraging experience of a 62-year-old friend: after his operation he was able not only to urinate easily but his sexual frequency soared from a painful once a month to a highly satisfying two or three times a week...
...files from Willwerth and White came by telex, Associate Editors Peter Stoler and Gilbert Cant got down to the job of medical mystery writing. Cant concentrated on the history of epidemics in the U.S. and on how scientists identify disease-causing agents. He recalled an earlier medical mystery in TIME: the 1957 case of a woman beauty parlor operator who lived in one of the hottest parts of Florida and whose varied and puzzling symptoms were finally diagnosed as Iceland disease...
...that lifelong leftists would not collapse like toy boats at the salvos of Solzhenitsyn, a Russian Orthodox dogmatic and rightist. What mindlessness. I guess Wolfe called the piece "The Intelligent Co-ed's Guide to America" because in his tough-minded telling of the facts and courageous exposure of cant he believes himself the new Bernard Shaw...