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Wertmuller relies on Giannini as much on the set as off. They work out bits of business together, constantly confer between takes. "Lina and Giancarlo work together as if they were one being," says Job, who is also his wife's art director. "The same images dance in front of their eyes. They instinctively share similar visions...
...provincial beginnings often confer a certain intensity on painters. The eye becomes obsessive, prehensile. Sanchez Cotán was a cloistered monk who never went outside Spain-but his Bodegon of vegetables (see color overleaf) is one of the most remarkable still-lifes ever painted. Each form-the ribbed curves of the cardoon stalks, the fleshy convolutions of the hanging cabbage, the ragged lace of the lettuce-is rendered with breathtaking economy. The picture is a lesson in ideal vegetarian geometry, with the slice of lemon and the slender cones of carrots occupying space like Renaissance mathematical models...
Somewhat belatedly, Baker realized that Lyons was the sole owner of the Homiletic, but Lyons, without consulting Baker, says he has turned control of the magazine over to Galbraith. At week's end Galbraith was flying to New York City to confer with both Lyons and Baker. Legally, the Homiletic had belonged to a Lyons-owned enterprise called Catholic Polls, Inc. One purpose of the organization: to poll the Catholic clergy and prove Lyons' contention that a majority oppose permitting priests to marry...
...American labor movement, he adheres to the status quo. He is not innovative in terms of reform." Shanker is not enthusiastic about busing, and he has opposed affirmative-action programs that impose racial or ethnic quotas. "Quotas are authoritarian and essentially discriminatory," he says. "Why not just confer an M.A. at birth on blacks and minorities?" On the other hand, he takes pride in the some 10,000 blacks and Hispanics whom he has brought into the U.F.T. as para-professionals with the opportunity of eventually becoming full-fledged teachers...
Almost all the statesmen will seize the occasion to do some bilateral negotiating. Hundreds of such meetings will take place (though nowhere near as many as the potential maximum of 1,190, presumably). Ford is expected to confer at least twice with Brezhnev, for instance, about the SALT II negotiations and the currently stalled Mutual and Balanced Force Reduction (MBFR) talks in Vienna. Chancellor Schmidt has let it be known that he hopes to see every Eastern European party leader, starting with Brezhnev, Poland's Edward Gierek and East Germany's Erich Honecker. Giscard and Wilson...