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The tattered, canvas tents that once billowed across the South Lebanese val ley near Saida (modern Sidon) have long since rotted away, and in their place the residents of Ein el Hilweh have built a Mediterranean Hooverville of plaster-sided shacks whose tin roofs clatter in the chill winter wind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Middle East: Return Visit to Despair | 12/29/1967 | See Source »

They engineered the coup without even taking the canvas covers off the guns on their vehicles. A "Military Revolutionary Committee" installed Lieut. Colonel Alphonse ("the Paratrooper") Alley, 37, popular chief of staff, as President. Soglo sought asylum in the French embassy, where visitors reported that he was "quite depressed." He...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dahomey: A Seasonal Coup | 12/29/1967 | See Source »

But that was not all-though it has taken over a century and a half to discover the second Goya in the Goya. Last June, Madrid's Prado Museum decided to have The Family of Charles IV cleaned and rebacked with a fresh canvas. When the first layer of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Painting: A Share in the Bacchanal | 12/22/1967 | See Source »

Finish Fetish. The very diversity indicates a vigorous painting scene across the U.S. And the multiple styles should decisively demolish the notion that trend setting stops or starts at the Hudson. For better or for worse, New York and the provinces are neck and neck when it comes to whipping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Neck & Neck | 12/22/1967 | See Source »

Abstraction is the dominant mode in the U.S. right now and accounts for approximately 50% of the paintings at the Whitney. How varied nonobjectiveness can be is illustrated by the op grids of Cleveland's Julian Stanczak as well as by the empty canvas of Manhattan Minimalist Robert Mangold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Neck & Neck | 12/22/1967 | See Source »

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