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...just too bad that all that had to go on in Providence," said Harvard diver Sue Abkowitz. "It would have been a big bang to have the meet here to open the new pool...
...fields on which Matisse strewed his cut-out nouns of shape-ivy leaf, diver, parakeet, dancer-work in the same way. They are not backgrounds; they are an enveloping fluid, a space that seems as active as its contents but, being "unpainted," is wholly different. Every painter since 1950 has had to reckon with the peculiar void Matisse invented with his cutouts. Not one has equaled their suppleness as décor, or their episodic grandeur as painting...
Nemiroff, an ardent scuba diver, began his research on a grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration after hearing reports of people who had survived long submersion without apparent ill effect. A study of some 60 near drownings convinced him that in warmer waters, the limit for submersion without death or brain damage probably was four minutes. But in waters below 21° C. (70° F.), the four-minute rule seemed to be suspended. Of 15 victims rescued after a minimum of four minutes from the chilly waters that abound in Michigan, Nemiroff found, two died of lung...
...from his colleagues. It was often taken as a denial of American newness. as a manifesto of eclecticism. Other artists dissimulated their debts to French painting or let critics bury them. Not Motherwell. Thus he was much abused as a mock European, all taste and private income-a Dick Diver, not attuned to the harsh and epic voice of the American pictorial myth...
...they are to win, however, each Crimson diver must produce one of his best performances. Toal and Schramm are known as finesse divers, exhibiting remarkable fluidity of form. Greacen and Gavin, on the other hand, are more powerful divers who exploit their unusual jumping ability...