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...rain (the slightly blurred expression is given by the three highlighted dots on each pupil), her pink and red scarf an homage to Bronzino, a raindrop neatly mimicking a tear on her cheek. Katz can also be very good at holding large areas of color in strict, hushed equilibrium (the "abstract" side of his work); two of the best paintings in this show are of birchbark canoes, their graceful forms doubled in reflection, riding on even fields of green and blue...
...week for Star Trek to illustrate those values: loyalty to friends (how many times had Kirk risked his ship to pull Scottie or Bones out of a jam?), an almost reckless disregard for personal safety, and commitment to self-selected duty. These are the values reflected in the equilibrium between Spock's cold-blooded logic and Dr. McCoy's mercurial emotionalism...
...book's conclusion is a brief attempt to draw theoretical lessons from the experiences it recounts. It is entertaining and meaningful when Berger presents a utopian vision of a once decaying and polluted industrial city that has cleaned itself up and now exists in equilibrium with the environment...
While much of the city Berger descibes can be glibly dissmissed as fanciful, his point should be heeded. We must radically alter the way we live and work if we are to stop destroying the earth's natural equilibrium and start being a part of it. Self-contained apartment buildings that run on solar energy, produce food, and recycle their own wastes may not be politically or economically feasible, but they are a standard that can help us move in the right direction. Like the rest of this book, they provide a basis for criticizing current practice...
...Grant eventually receded to become a haunting half mystery of American life. Down the generations he has stayed cocooned, in memory, in a stoical mediocrity. H.L. Mencken said Grant was the kind of man who would say to someone he encountered, "Meet the wife." He possessed an eerie philistine equilibrium, remarking once that Venice would be a fine city if it were drained. What stuck mostly in memory as the decades passed were the shabby things: the scandals and swindles and, ignominiously, the talk about his drinking. He did drink too much now and then, when he was depressed...