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...tailor is a rich Jew from Paris, hiding out in an uneasy commercial alliance with his client in hopes of getting to Spain and freedom. The tailor has a daughter (Aurore Clement), who becomes Lucien's quarry. She is fascinated by him, put off by him, intimidated by him. Finally she gives in to him out of a sense of inevitability and because there seems nowhere else to turn. Her name is France...
Bayh also has an impressive list of achievements under his belt--a record which Republicans may find invincible at election time. The junior senator led successful opposition in 1969 and 1970 against Nixon's choices of Clement Haynsworth and G. Harrold Carswell for the Supreme Court. Bayh also wrote and guided to passage the 25th amendment on presidential inability and vice presidential succession. That amendment made possible the succession of Gerald R. Ford to the presidency...
...authorized this bizarre policy of revision and neglect was one of the three executors of Smith's estate, Art Critic Clement Greenberg. About ten sculptures underwent change at Greenberg's whim, some irrevocably. Flat paint can be resprayed, but some of Smith's polychrome works were painted in a splashy, brushy manner-a handwriting that can no more be restored than the excited scribbles he made with a grinder on the skin of his stainless-steel pieces...
Hope for an easing in the rise of food prices dried up under summer's rainless skies, but the climate in other commodities markets is beginning to look more clement. Since the end of April, an index of prices for industrial raw materials compiled by London's influential weekly, the Economist, has dropped 32%; metals plunged 43%. Because of numerous other inflationary pressures, such as interest rates and wages, the drop does not foreshadow a fall in the prices of cars or refrigerators -though Manhattan's Tiffany...
...arcs simultaneously evoke an archaic temple precinct and a ship, while running a counterpoint to the real spinnakers billowing on the sea below; they turn a flat site, for a moment, into a reminiscence of the Aegean. It becomes increasingly clear that Liberman, along with Mark di Suvero and Clement Meadmore, is one of the three U.S. sculptors best fitted to handle large outdoor projects...