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...Show that modern art was foreign, perverse and un-American would have found confirmation of that in Stettheimer's guest list: to reach it, you pretty much had to be European or gay, or both. Then you would find your way into her paintings, as did the theater critic Carl Van Vechten, author of the novel Nigger Heaven and prime link between downtown white New York and the Harlem Renaissance, posing in rapturously exaggerated contrapposto in 1922's Portrait of Carl Van Vechten on a red stool on a black rug on a red carpet; while in Portrait of Stieglitz...
...scenic art, stage lighting, theater improvisation and choral music, FAP participants heard speeches by Harvard arts luminaries such as Arthur L. Loeb, senior lecturer on Visual and Environmental Studies; Jeffrey Bernstein '89, conductor of the Harvard-Radcliffe Chorus and assistant conductor of the Harvard Glee Club; and Marjorie Cohn, Carl A. Weyerhaeuser Curator of Prints at the Harvard Art Museums...
...grumblers in the north of the U.S. are sometimes heard to say that what the nation needs for its spiritual and environmental health is another Ice Age, a mile-thick, continent-wide ice sheet, heading south. In Florida they do not say this. Florida has hurricanes, and when satirist Carl Hiaasen dedicates his new thriller, Stormy Weather (Knopf; 336 pages; $24), to "Donna, Camille, Hugo and Andrew," he is not referring to cute little nieces and nephews...
...arms embargo on Bosnia. The bipartisan clamor grew despitea NATO agreementjust hours earlier to seek pre-emptive air strikes on rebel Serbs in the region. "There's only one thing that's going to protect the Bosnian people againstthe Serb expansion," said Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), who waved published reports of continued Serb aggression. "And that is if they're allowed to defend themselves." More significant, Senate Republicans have secured the two-thirds needed to override a promised presidential veto if an identical measure passes the House, possibly by Thursday, by a similar margin. Whatever the outcome, TIME...
...Serbs closer to a deal, provided U.N.-imposed sanctions against Yugoslavia are lifted. The proposal made no waves in Washington, since it recycled ideas that had been rejected by the U.S. Then hard on the heels of the capture of Srebrenica by the Bosnian Serb army, Time has learned, Carl Bildt, the peace negotiator for the European Union, presented Milosevic with a number of ideas that might make a deal more palatable all around, including a way to finesse a potential Russian veto of enforcement measures. Milosevic was described as being "receptive...