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The crowd of 25,000 packing Rio's Maracanazinho Stadium included favela dwellers and members of Brazil's lower middle class, their swarthy faces reflecting their country's racial mix. Decorously dressed in black suits and flowered dresses, they were moved by evangelical zeal: when a 2...
History's Backwater. Modernism flowered at a time when Catholicism seemed to be a backwater of intellectual history and the Pope was the intransigent "prisoner of the Vatican." By far the most famous modernist was Abbe Alfred Loisy (1857-1940), a Frenchman, whose book The Gospel and the Church...
Ikeda's subject matter is decidedly pop-Oriented: he seems humorously obsessed with the artifacts and luxuries of modern Japan's mass-produced prosperity. Rose Is Rose is a three-tiered print that piles flowers atop a pair of flowered, high-heeled shoes fitted into a box; the...
Central to the drug scene is marijuana, the green-flowered cannabis herb that has been turning man on since time immemorial. Virtually every hippie uses it-sometimes up to three times a day. Known as khif or hashish in the Middle East, bhang or ganja in India, ma in China...
Lichtenstein has gone on to kid other styles. Picasso was ripe for ribbing, he felt, because a Picasso "has become a kind of popular object-everyone feels he should have a reproduction of a Picasso in his home." In Woman with I Flowered Hat, Lichtenstein did "an oversimplification of Picasso...