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...controls, he guides the ship on a voyage made possible only by the imagination, with the help of a Hollywood special-effects crew. Into the arms of giant galaxies he goes, through halos of stars, past a blinking pulsar, skirting the edge of a black hole, even reconnoitering a distant planet that seems to be inhabited...
...with witty, well-crafted verses like "He tried all colours, white and black, and coffee/Though quite a few were chary, more were bold/Some took it like the Host, some like a toffee/The two or three who wept were soon consoled."). Amis is an able versifier, but he seems dispassionately distant, the outsider looking through the window--noticing death behind the carnival mask of sex, say, then shrugging smugly and moving along the sidewalk...
...concept of the bantustans does not perturb de Villiers. She sees democracy as a distant prospect in South Africa's future, explaining that it is possible only within a "confederal framework" comgining the banstustans--which will represent the Africans--with the all-white Republic. Saying it is on "the back burner," de Villiers similarly accepts another issue that provokes international objections: South Africa's continued occupation of Namibia and invasions of neighboring Angola...
DIED. Princess Anne of Denmark, 62, British-born wife of Prince George and cousin of England's Queen Elizabeth II; of a heart attack; in London. Born Anne Bowes-Lyon, she married Prince George, the Danish military attaché in London and a distant cousin of Denmark's Queen Margrethe II, in 1950, after the dissolution of her marriage to Lord Anson. She and Anson had a daughter and a son, Photographer Patrick Lichfield...
...Whitney's show suggests the influence of cubism, let alone abstract art, although one might be able to detect some remote Fauve echo-perhaps through Albert Marquet, whose work he saw in Paris-in Hopper's fondness for relieving a low-toned background with a sudden distant poke of primary color: a coat, a flag or the red side of a brick chimney...