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While the layout of the Journal is sometimes repetitious and unexciting, the editors make good use of white space to avoid clutter. And because of the high-quality paper, photographs, which are excellent to begin with, reproduce well...
...Coptic and Abyssinian-have rights to the Holy Sepulcher; for years the basilica has been near collapse because the churches cannot agree on how to make the necessary repairs. The interior of Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity, co-owned by Orthodox, Catholics and Armenians, is a tasteless clutter of rival altars, lamps, candelabra, icons and statues. In addition, many of the shrines are ringed by bazaars and barkers, hawking everything from plastic crosses to soft drinks...
...Died. Lee Simonson, 78, theatrical-set designer, who pioneered a new kind of functional set design, which by substituting style and simplicity for useless clutter and opulence sought to frame the mood of a play without smothering it, thereby enhancing hundreds of productions (Liliom, Idiot's Delight), mostly for the Theatre Guild, of which he was a founder in 1919; of a heart attack; in Yonkers, New York...
Perhaps the best thing about all the decorations and anecdotes that clutter the scene is a sense of humor, a sense of freedom, a suspicion that anything can happen-perhaps even passion. In this welter of the current art world, it is still possible to say, or sense, that some things are good, some bad. There is the almost haunting fact that one metal glob or set of blinking lights will somehow tug at the imagination, while another will not. That Savarin coffee can full of paint brushes, which is in the Museum of Modern Art at the moment...
Cots & Cottages. The district headquarters, a stately home usually occupied exclusively by the district chief, has been converted into a campground for the new cadres, looks like an unsupervised fraternity house with its clutter of cots and guitars. The new district chief, Mai Nhu Manh, a graduate of the National Institute of Administration, boasts only a corner bed with a mosquito net. Says a young colleague, Law Graduate Doan Thanh Liem: "The only thing that is important to us is a change in mentality, a sense of community." Only one American, a 24-year-old named Charles Sweet, is advising...