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...getting inside his darting, catch-me-if-you-can progress, from Cubism to Neoclassicism, from Surrealism to Guernica, was an all-important matter to that small but crucial category of American artists who had no use for the approved manner of the moment, American Scene realism. Grant Wood's farm folk and Thomas Hart Benton's small-town cuties were fine, if you didn't care about what painting could be. Although Picasso never set foot on American soil, in the intense conclaves of this would-be American avant-garde, his example hung in the air like the moon...
...Bring on the Bulls" [Sept. 25], on the popularity of bull-riding shows on TV: I was disappointed to see such a promotion of blatant animal cruelty. I grew up on a cattle farm and know that bucking is not normal behavior for bulls. Those exploited by the Professional Bull Riders are domesticated animals that "perform" out of fear and in response to irritation from electric shocks, painful bucking straps, tail twisting and flesh-gouging spurs. The supposedly aggressive behavior is actually a terrified animal's attempt to escape extreme pain. I urge fans of bull riding to find forms...
...agree with the statement "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore." It's us (the people) versus them (the politicians), and it doesn't matter what primary color you wear. Just as in the closing scene of George Orwell's Animal Farm, even when you look closely, you can't tell the difference between the animals and the people anymore...
DIED. Martha Holmes, 83, one of LIFE's first female photographers and the creator of historic, vivid portraits of luminaries; in New York City. Warm and engaged, Holmes captured rare, personal moments in the lives of subjects from Edward R. Murrow (on a tractor on his farm in Connecticut) to Eleanor Roosevelt (surrounded by orphans on a walk through the woods). Holmes' famous shot of Jackson Pollock, cigarette dangling, working intently on one of his trademark splattered canvases, was later reproduced on a U.S. postage stamp...
...derived, after all, from Asian herbs and plants. Consider the buzz in holistic-healing circles around Himalayan goji berries, used in Tibet for nearly 2,000 years to treat kidney problems, allergies, diabetes and tuberculosis. At least that's according to the marketing materials of Timpanogos Nursery, a farm growing goji berries--in Utah. The mangosteen may have met its match...