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...fragments of meaning. The narrative proceeds chronologically, skimming rapidly over Jed's academic career, slowing down to capture the degeneration of his love affair, and focusing finally and most persistently on his moments of existential angst. Jed's own formlessness is thrown into relief by his encounters with a cluster of well-drawn minor figures, from the cheerfully mundane Cudworths, whose very name suggests the unquestioning content of cattle, to the impeccable Mrs. Jones-Talbot, for whom the study of Dante is a ritual of appreciation for a lost Italian lover...
Unlike the relatively simple procedures for shipping crude oil across vast stretches of ocean, importing foreign gas to the U.S. poses a cluster of complex problems-financial, political, technical and environmental. Though some imported gas is now seeping in from distant points, and efforts are under way to bring in more, it will probably be five years at least before any appreciable supplies of such fuel enter the U.S. to help warm homes and run factories. Even then the amount is unlikely to fill more than a small fraction of U.S. demand...
Mildred Thompson's sculptures are like frozen tree-spirits in classical Greek mythology--half-close your eyes and stand back from a cluster of them and you could almost imagine the room was filled with figures that are half-human, half-tree, but all energy trapped beneath the wood surface. This exhibition in Hilles consists of smooth-oiled spruce statues and murals with names like Frozen Banner or La Primavera or Full Orchestration. They are abstractions of abstractions, the work of an artist who declares "I never knew an artist in my life". They are a perfect symbiosis between function...
...Ehrlichman's appeal of his conviction for engineering the White House plumbers' break-in at the office of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist in 1971 after Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon papers. Ehrlichman, formerly Nixon's chief domestic affairs adviser, is serving time at Safford Prison, a cluster of cement-block buildings in the Arizona desert, and could be eligible for parole in April...
...behind a polished rosewood desk in a small but luxurious office in Boulder, Colo. Behind him hangs a large tapestry of a snow lion by the Japanese artist Tatsumura. His own paintings and calligraphy decorate the other walls. Six disciples, among them a scientist, a classicist and a physiotherapist, cluster around him, each dressed, like the master, in a dark suit. All are part of Chogyam's new kingdom: Naropa Institute, named for a great 8th century Buddhist scholar, the largest Buddhist study center...