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Olitski's "break-through" -- the sudden leap from mediocre early work so characteristic of modern painting -- occurs in 1964 with paintings like Deep Drag. Here Olitski turns to a rectilinear ordering of the forms: the circles are still there, but they have been driven to the edges where they interact with long, brushed forms to shape out a composition clearly accepting the limits of the frame. (Eventually those circles will be reduced to thumbprints on the smooth field, and finally can be observed as mere drops.) Olitski's characteristic banishment of all drawing to the edges of the canvas appears...
...stories in this collection are all about women, written in the first person. Yet Alberto Moravia is no intellectual transvestite, going for novelty kicks in drag. For more than 45 years, in works like Two Women and Conjugal Love, he has practiced as the slightly old-fashioned literary psychologist to whom the soul of woman represents the final mystery...
This is just as well, since the beginning is pretty disappointing. The first rumble is confused and unmenacing, the first few songs drag and don't get much of a beat, and Bill Nabel and Jane Eichkern are understandably unable to make their sudden ecstasy of inexplicable love convincing. About the only thing that does work is Peter Agoos's set, which has a fine flavor of New York to it, although even given the city's infinite variety it seems unlikely that Doc's drugstore would charge 30 cents for a Coca-Cola and 29 for a milkshake...
...time, when the Viet Nam truce was being worked out, U.S. officials expected that a de facto ceasefire in neighboring Cambodia would emerge by the end of March. Now it appears that the fitful Cambodian war -and the bombing there by U.S. B-52s -could easily drag on through the year. One reason is that Hanoi does not control all of the antigovernment forces; they include sizable numbers of homegrown neutralists and Khmer Rouge Communists, as well as the estimated 36,000 Viet Cong and North Vietnamese troops who are supposed to be withdrawn eventually under the terms...
...situation which is stacked against them from the moment of unequal admissions. It is against the rules to exclude people from dining halls, but when the women who organized the Holmes Hall dinner circulated a letter asking for support, they were answered by the appearance of men in drag. When a meeting with Matina Horner sponsored by the Women's Center asked the males present to leave, they were answered by charges of reverse sexism -- but all in fun, of course...