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Healthy Disrespect. In its early editions, the W.R.D. offered a generous mixture of serious articles and scientific humor. Then, after receiving a particularly indignant letter from a famous scientist who complained that he had read most of a "technical" report before recognizing it as satire, McConnell decided to make a more obvious separation between types of articles. Humorous contributions are now printed upside down in the back half of the W.R.D. (or right side up in the front half, if you happen to open it from the back), along with a topsy-turvy back cover. This repositioning has caused...
There was nothing but silence, however, from modern art's most famous master. "Monsieur and Madame are not at home," squawked a loudspeaker hooked up to the electronically operated gate of his villa, Notre Dame de Vie. A few intimate glimpses of life within still leak out to the world. A recent visitor recalls a prudent Picasso who has sworn off chain-smoking Gauloises, drinks carrot juice at teatime, guzzles thyme tea at other times, and sips wine only sparingly. A lifetime of painter's discipline has not changed. After dinner, Picasso leaps up, announces: "Now I must...
...critics expect Picasso to be a significant playwright. More disturbingly, some critics feel that Picasso in his later decades is painting mainly to amuse himself. Clement Greenberg in this month's Art forum judged that since Picasso's famous Guernica, the brutal 1937 mural depicting the aerial bombardment of civilians during the Spanish Civil War, "Picasso's art has ceased being indispensable." London's Sunday Times Art Critic John Russell acknowledges that Picasso is still "the perpetual president of modern art," then adds: "This indisputably great artist has sacrificed too much in recent years to immediacy...
...experience of this campaign will have allowed him a chance to polish his campaign style. Adlai's speeches tend to be dull and confused, his public image is weak and could use more color; for humor he relies too often on his father's old stories -- the most famous is one about his father seeing a conspicuously pregnant woman carrying a large poster at a presidential rally with the words ADLAI IS THE MAN on it. In a word, Adlai III needs more flavor...
...comeback against Dartmouth, in a second half that probably marked Zimmerman's emergence as a top flight quarterback. He was nervous and made some mistakes in the first two quarters; but in the third he settled down and led his team to the victory that has made the Crimson famous...