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...American art, and that entails large work space. Traditionally, artists seek out a district where space is cheap and plentiful, like the Greenwich Village brownstones four decades ago. Then a price spiral begins with the arrival of uptown people seeking a chic downtown pad. Rent up, artists out; the drift begins again. New Yorkers, being neurotically fashion-addicted, not only use artists as their Seeing-Eye dogs but promptly usurp their kennels...
...Mefferd's room (made with the help of Universal Television) is a stunning perceptual experience: a pitch-black chamber lined with strobe lights. When they flash, the effect is engulfing and somewhat unnerving: silhouettes etch themselves on the retina as on film, and afterimage sheets of brilliant color drift and flower across the entire field of vision. Mefferd's piece is unique in that it is wholly objectless art -everything happens on and to the retina without mediation...
...appeared on Moscow TV screens. He was playfully floating on his back in the zero gravity of space and pumping his legs as if he were pedaling a bicycle. Then, while all Russia watched, Volkov accidentally released a picture of Lenin, letting the father of the Soviet state drift aimlessly around the spacecraft...
...hours until Commencement drift down to a precious few, speculation is running rampant through the Yard about this/year's honorary degrees...
...Liberal Drift. "People always wonder about people of faith-whether they live it," remarks Niebuhr Biographer June Bingham. "The last 20 years of his life were years of severe pain. He bore them with grace and humor." In those same years a younger generation of Protestant liberals was drifting away from Niebuhr's concept of constantly contending self-interest to revolutionary, third-world romanticism. He had decried "a too-simple social radicalism [that] does not recognize how quickly the poor, the weak, the despised of yesterday may, on gaining a social victory over their detractors, exhibit the same arrogance...