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...high-keyed color swatches, like details from Matisse's wallpaper back grounds, of Kim MacConnel's Baton Rouge, 1978. There is also a liking for emblems, sometimes of a puzzling sort−as in the paintings of Lois Lane (not a pseudonym), which sport in profile a curious little animal vaguely resembling a horse, silhouetted on a column against a dark background or dangling from what appears to be a parachute. Here, quirkiness is pushed almost to the the point of risk...
...kneeing for position along with the most practiced members of the American press. But most of the time, unleashed at last in what they had long been taught to think of as the land of "imperialists" and "paper tigers," these Chinese observers seemed withdrawn and lacking in the curious eye, pugnacious stance and fast footwork of their Western counterparts...
Palestinian investigators quickly traced the assassination to three mysterious -and missing-foreigners. TIME has learned that as many as 14 Israeli agents, some of them veterans of the Lillehammer debacle, were involved in the operation. The most curious of the known suspects was a woman later identified as traveling on a British passport issued in 1975 in the name of Erika Mary Chambers. Three months ago, she rented an apartment overlooking the Rue Verdun. She appeared to be an eccentric middle-aged spinster, known to her neighbors as Penelope, who loved stray cats and sketched street scenes from her window...
...however, a certain Marvel magic has been lost in the translation to video entertainment. TV's attempts at relevancy are encroaching on fantasy. On television the Hulk tries hypnosis therapy to cure his curious green condition and takes on such prosaic problems as teen-age alcoholism and child abuse. Similarly, TV's Spider-Man battles familiar terrorists and assassins instead of his old intergalactic foes like Doctor Doom. Lee misses the fantasy of the printed page. "A lot of the plots on the Spider-Man show," he complains, "are situations that Kojak could just as easily have handled...
...such confirmation occurred? Robert Jastrow, director of NASA'S Goddard Institute for Space Studies, has published a small and curious book called God and the Astronomers, in which he suggests that the Bible was right after all, and that people of his own kind, scientists and agnostics, by his description, now find themselves confounded. Jastrow blows phantom kisses like neutrinos across the chasm between science and religion, seeming almost wistful to make a connection. Biblical fundamentalists may be happier with Jastrow's books than are his fellow scientists. He writes operatically: "For the scientist who has lived...