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...family on a flat plane. His acrylics run from red-violet through aqua. But Packer's three-paneled work attributes more importance to form than does James Brown's-stripes end in curved edges, and three vertical stripes are halved in the last panel, leaving a blue one erect in solitary splendor. And Peter Sutton's "Homage a Picasso," one in oils, goes back to Cubistic formal analysis. The oil painting cleverly echoes Picasso's "Three Musicians," complete with guitar neck...
...CRIMSON has joined the fold, without even taking the trouble to erect the false front of sociological mumbo-jumbo as the Times and the Ed Review are always careful...
...back arching as she plunged into the surf. No beach bunny our Girl, she would never be condemned to sit with the transistor and stuff on the shore while He the Eternal Blond One went on oddysseys. No captain's widow Girl, scanning the sea for sight of his erect from gliding in from time to time. No idle searching long strands pulled forward for split ends, oh no not her. Girl, a surfer-queen herself who went where mortals feared to go, a jolly Loch Nesser showing the visiting team all the joys of the western floodtide...
...Erfurt remains to be seen. To be sure, the shy, introverted Stoph (rhymes with loaf) is not exactly the cuddly type. In a country where telling jokes about political leaders has long been a favorite pastime, no German-East or West-can readily recall any gags about the steely, erect and correct Stoph. But he does seem to inspire respect...
...Auden looks very, very old. His hair is flecked with white, and, head erect, shoulders hunched, he lurches forward, an amiable panda in dark glasses and checkered bedroom slippers. His age is etched on his face, in the wrinkles that twist and turn, crossing over and flowing together, streaking across in thin, deep lines. At 63, he has worn out his face, and, when he leans back, eyes closed, the creases of his eyes and mouth branch out into the spreading wrinkles. W. H. Auden-in the thirties, that name labeled a new generation of pocts; by the sixties...