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...hardly know what a Moluccan [June 20] is. I do not know why the Moluccans in Holland are unhappy. I suppose that the recent hijackings by the small band of thugs in Holland were intended in part to attract my attention, to make me curious enough to learn of their complaints and to elicit my support for their cause. However, the repulsiveness of their actions has merely served to reduce to insignificance their cause, no matter how noble it might otherwise be. It is probably unjust, but 1 am certain that a majority of us will never hear the word...
...moment at least, the agreement appeared to resolve the curious impasse under which Andreotti has governed since last year's election. The Christian Democrats won 39% of the vote and 263 of the 630 seats in the Chamber of Deputies (v. 34% and 228 seats for the Communists), and were unable to put together a majority coalition. Ever since, Andreotti has governed with the tacit support of the Communists and other major parties, who have consistently abstained on confidence votes. But this spring both the Communists and the Socialists (10% of the popular vote and 57 seats) demanded...
...women readily agreed to help the labor union. They proclaimed the positions the CIO were forced to surrender and formed a new, solitary picketline of two the next day, protesting the police action. Both women wore gas masks; they were a curious sight. The newspapers quickly reported the story of the 75-year-old DuPont, a member of one of the wealthiest industrial families in America, protesting a management decision, and the publicity bore fruit. An enquiry was held, unearthing the information that the police, with the approval of their Chief, had been accepting money not only from the city...
...curious thing is that, in hind sight, the once criticized swings between abstract and figurative in Diebenkorn's work seem not to matter. Beyond them, one sees the profound consistency with which he has pursued his essential lan guage as a painter - how the zigzagging pipes under the basin in Corner of Studio - Sink, 1963, relate to the angular chops of dark shadow in his earlier Berkeley landscapes, and are exquisitely refined in the later Ocean Parks; how the vitreous transparencies of his Californian rooms in the late '50s, gridded by mul lions and tabletops, become the sharp...
...story also has some pretty serious problems, or, perhaps more accurately, some puzzling aspects for what is intended as summer-weight entertainment. The most curious of these is a certain unconscious-or is it semiconscious?-racism. The crowd pursuing the almost-heroin is composed entirely of black men, and their interest in sexually tormenting Ms. Bisset is at least as powerful as their greed for the drug. She is cast as a nice innocent kid trying to spend a quiet week in Bermuda with her boy friend. Out scuba-diving, they discover tantalizing clues to both treasures. Very soon...