Word: forme
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Foreign Minister in the military government of General Muhammed Ayub Khan, he helped fashion Pakistan's policy of friendship with China. After his country's humiliating defeat in the war that led to independence for Bangladesh, Bhutto, who had quit the Cabinet in 1966 to form his own party, was asked by the generals to take over the government. In what was perhaps his finest hour, he restored national pride, negotiated the release of nearly 90,000 prisoners of war, initiated political and economic reforms and gave the country its longest period of civilian rule in three decades...
Government efforts to keep a lid on prices are also failing. Many businessmen feel that some form of mandatory wage-price controls is inevitable, despite repeated protestations by the President, his chief inflation fighter Alfred Kahn and other Administration officials that no such move is contemplated. Thus corporations are pushing up prices earlier and higher than they ordinarily would as a hedge against being caught by controls "with their prices down." As a result, says COWPS Director Barry Bosworth, the Administration is tightening up on its price standards, which are becoming less and less voluntary...
...language of sculpture underwent the most searching revision it had had, perhaps in its whole history, and certainly since the time of Bernini and his followers in the 17th century. It moved, to put it roughly, from the lump to the web: from closed mass to open, constructed form. What happened to it then is set forth in a beautifully chosen, concise exhibition called "The Planar Dimension: Europe, 1912-1932," organized by Curator Margit Rowell, which opened last month at New York's Guggenheim Museum...
...till now, been properly explained by a museum show. Rowell has done the job with tonic intelligence, bringing together 114 sculptures done between 1912 and 1932 by 39 artists: French, Spanish, German, Hungarian, Russian, Italian and American. She has traced sculpture's passage from closed mass to open form with a precision of focus and a variety of little-known works that no earlier effort has matched. This may be the most important show of modernist sculpture in the past ten years...
...gaiety and precision of feeling that predicts art deco. Archipenko was a Russian émigré who arrived in Paris to work in 1908. As Rowell shows, he contrived to graft the tradition of the icon-with its deep frame and boxy space, and its applied incrustation in the form of halos, plaques, ex-votos and jewels fixed on the paint surface-to cubist sculpture. A work like Woman with a Fan (1914) combines both; it is almost as hieratic as a Russian saint. Yet nothing could have been more modern than the funnel Archipenko inserted into the design, like...