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...FAIRFIELD PORTER-Tibor de Nagy, 149 East 72nd. Porter took his training at the Art Students League from Thomas Hart Benton, felt "you don't deserve to paint abstractly until you can paint representationally." But he admits that De Kooning has been a major influence. One painting, September Clouds, points up that affinity: an abstract rendering of nature, it suggests that Porter is ready to follow a new path. Through April...
...example, Connecticut's five congressional districts range in population from 318,942 to 689,555. Democrats control all but the Fourth, Fairfield County. Fairfield would be strengthened for the Republicans if it were to lose some of the Democratic manufacturing towns along the district's northeast boundary. And the Second District, most vulnerable to realignment, has sent Republicans to Congress in six of the past ten elections, so there is a good chance that the G.O.P. would benefit from a change there...
Like its original, the modern Gothic novel is prone to interest in tombs, graveyards, menacing strangers, cryptic portents, castles and ghosts. These are all present in A Singular Man, cleverly transposed into the idiom of contemporary Manhattan and ancillary Fairfield County. Smith has a great marble mausoleum under construction, air-conditioned, flood-and earthquake-proof. Smith moodily lurks there from time to time. The ghosts are of the contemporary autobiographical kind-Smith's own spectral guilty memories acquired in a posh Jesuit prep school. The furies are represented by the Press. Evil is represented by the abandoned power-bitch...
Died. Lyman Beecher Stowe, 82, grandson of Novelist Harriet Beecher Stowe (Uncle Tom's Cabin), grandnephew of Abolitionist Preacher Henry Ward Beecher, author of the lively 1934 account of the crusades and peccadilloes of his forebears, Saints, Sinners and Beechers; of pneumonia; in Fairfield, Conn...
Party unity was much on the minds of many Republicans after the Rockefeller blast. "Our job," said Florida's G.O.P. State Chairman Tom Fairfield Brown, "is to kick the Democrats out of office, not fight among ourselves." Muttered a top Republican congressional leader: "I'm not for running anyone out of the party. There aren't enough...