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...Ironically, the main support for environmental art has come from within the art world itself. Artists creating works which were deliberately too big, too awkward, or too temporary to be bought, sold and exhibited on the gallery/museum scene were offered museum shows and commissions throughout the world. By some feat of ingenuity, the masterminds of the art business managed to make the unmarketable marketable...
...feat of keeping Tito alive has also produced a salutary political effect: it has given Yugoslavia time to prepare for his passing. Since January, the collective leadership that Tito put in place has been functioning smoothly and appears to be proving itself capable of running the country without him. Among ordinary Yugoslavs today, concern persists, but the tension of the first days of Tito's final illness has given way to stoical acceptance. Said Jože Smole, Tito's former personal secretary and member of the Central Committee of the League of Communists: "We have very deep...
...been quietly etching his way into the record books. In each of the past three years, he has been the top money winner in golf, named Player of the Year by the PGA, and awarded the Vardon Trophy for the lowest stroke average on the PGA tour, a feat no other player has accomplished for even two consecutive years. Says 1978 PGA Championship Winner John Mahaffey: "Tom has become the man to beat...
...James Cleveland ("Jesse") Owens became forever a symbol of the triumph of the individual over man's more malevolent impulses. At the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, which Adolf Hitler hoped would be a showcase of Aryan supremacy, Owens won four gold medals in track and field events, a feat not equaled since. The sight of the graceful American's soaring victory in the long jump and his Olympic-record wins in the 100-and 200-meter dashes and 400-meter relay put the lie to der Führer's simplistic myths about race...
With international conflict clouding the Games once again, Owens' feat takes on a special resonance. In 1936 many voices called for a boycott of the Berlin Olympics to protest the policies of the host nation, as President Carter has done in the case of the 1980 Moscow Games. But while Owens' performance vindicated his own belief that the Olympics should not be suborned by politics, it was, of course, played as a political triumph by the foes of Nazism. Almost forgotten is the fact that two Jewish sprinters who had qualified for the U.S. 400-meter relay team...