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Another catalog eulogist, Lynne Warren, noting Sultan's commitment to formal painting and his commendable lack of interest in grabbing quotes from visual mass media, winds up with the startling claim that "his works are meditations on the possibilities of transcendent meaning for an audience that has forgotten . . . how to believe." Aw, come on. There is nothing "transcendent" about Sultan's work. It is decorative and materialistic. Most of its motifs come from photographs, not direct observation; its style is distanced and gloomily elegant, enlivened by discreet erotic puns between, for instance, lemons and breasts...
Things had looked quite different early in the week, when optimism about trade ruled the markets, stocks were climbing, and everyone seemed to have forgotten that the Dow Jones industrial average had fallen 508 points last Oct. 19. The upbeat mood was shattered at 8:30 a.m. Thursday as the Commerce Department's report on merchandise trade flashed across TV screens and computer terminals. Investors, who for the most part had been expecting a continued improvement in the trade balance, were stunned to see that the February deficit was $13.8 billion, an increase of 11% from the $12.4 billion shortfall...
Schickele is best known for his musical parodies. His work has strangely become synonymous with the humorous compositions of P.D.Q. Bach, the most deservedly forgotten son of Johann Sebastian Bach, whose works Schickele "discovered" nearly 20 years...
...hasn't forgotten to return an occasional book to the library? But Gustav Hasford may have overdone it. Hasford is an Academy Award nominee for his work in adapting his 1979 Viet Nam War novel, The Short-Timers, into Stanley Kubrick's film Full Metal Jacket. He was wanted last week by campus police at the California Polytechnic State University, who had discovered nearly 10,000 library books, including seven overdue from Cal Poly, in storage lockers Hasford rented in San Luis Obispo. The books came from libraries as far afield as Australia...
...contra crisis swung the spotlight back on a half-forgotten drama, it also shifted public attention back to Ronald Reagan, who had seemed to be fading from view as the primary campaigns accelerated. Like his aides who now stand indicted, the President remained stubbornly defiant as his contra policy came close to collapsing. Although earlier in the week he assiduously lobbied leaders on Capitol Hill to renew the funding for his "Freedom Fighters," Reagan's attitude toward Congress and the contras remained unchanged. Former National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane, said the President, was guilty only of "not telling Congress everything...