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To Painter G. Ray Kerciu, 30, assistant professor of art at Ole Miss, the sprawling painting he called America the Beautiful expressed all the raw violence and redneck inhumanity of last September's integration crisis at the university. Kerciu had watched the riots from his office window, and for...
...about it: "Get up an outfit for outdoor work, go out into some woe-begotten, turkey-chawed, bottle-nosed, henpecked country and set myself down, get out my materials and make as accurate a painting of what I see in front of me as I can." Anshutz' canvases breathe in life the way lungs take in air. In several seascapes at the gallery, young boys frolic over the beach, and the whole canvas tingles with their impatient eagerness for the water. At a calmer moment, two young school-boys-one with sleeves tightly rolled up-play out a grim...
Even ignoring public relations, Clay has all the obvious advantages: strength (at 208 pounds), speed and reach. Cassius has won all 17 of his fights since turning pro in 1960; 14 have been by KO's. Still, the perfect record would prove much more if Cassius had taken on some...
Rice pounded his game opponent to the canvas twice in round one and knocked him through the ropes early in round two before ending the one-sided contest with a crushing left-right combination. The left literally lifted Miller into the air, and a pile-driving right chop laid him...
In one of his most moving works, Goodman painted four fear-ridden figures staring out of the canvas, a vast landscape spread out behind them and a storm gathering above, all pictured in strong, somber greens and browns. What are they looking at-the end of the world? Goodman calls...