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...Betty Parsons Gallery in Manhattan. This ironic burst of premature minimalism was only the first in a series of gestures that, throughout the '50s, persistently harassed and delighted art's public in New York. They were all conducted under Rauschenberg's slogan, derived from futurism and Dada, about "working in the gap between art and life." Out of street rubbish, dead birds and old newspapers and gaudy lathers of pigment, he put together the "combine paintings" that, so much later, remain his best-known works. How outrageous, how iniquitous that tire-girdled Angora goat looked...
...observers described as a minor act of genocide, the ruling Tutsi tribe in the African republic of Burundi in 1972 put down a rebellion by massacring some 75,000 members of the country's Hutu majority. That same year, Uganda's burly dictator Idi Amin ("Big Daddy") Dada forcibly expelled 26,000 of his country's Asian residents and expropriated their possessions. Last week Burundi and Uganda-along with other notably humane nations like the Soviet Union-were among the 91 members of the United Nations that voted to suspend South Africa from the General Assembly...
...ideas that has always been Stoppard's strength in the past. It's a lightweight world of drawing room comedy in which the foursome of Carr, Tzara and their English girl-friends gets itself confused with the foursome of Wilde's play. Tzara explains how he discovered the word "dada" and Joyce is good for a couple of show-stopping limericks, but things never get off the ground. Some of the minor characters are better drawn, such as Carr's butler, who oversees Carr's non-handling of his diplomatic duties, a closet communist who's quite good at putting...
...work only according to God's directions," explained Uganda's mercurial leader General Idi ("Big Daddy") Amin Dada, who has added film making to his myriad activities. A transfixed TV audience in England last week saw Big Daddy explain the necessity of killing 3 spies, guerrillas and Israelis, give a detailed demonstration of military tactics, and dress down his Foreign Minister, -who, notes the commentator dryly, turned up dead in the Nile two weeks later. To those new to Big Daddy, French Director Barbet Schroeder's Autoportrait seemed to be an African rendering of Titus Andronicus...
...ever accused Uganda's mercurial President Idi ("Big Daddy") Amin Dada of running a democracy. Until now, though, there has been little solid documentation of just how bad things are in his East African nation. Last week the prestigious International Commission of Jurists issued one of the most scathing reports it has produced in 22 years of investigating official injustice from Turkey to South Africa. After examining evidence for three years the jurists concluded that Uganda has seen "a total breakdown of the rule...