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...entrace to the galleries housing the exhibition Picasso in the Collection of the Museum of Modern Art. On one wall the imposing "boy Leading a Horse" (1905) walks purposefully forward, a self-assured youth guiding the beast forward by the certain force of his pure and adolescent figure. His gaze and grace look to the opposite wall, where his grown-up self seems to stare back from the commanding eyes of a self-portrait of the painter, urging the viewer to join the horse behind an innovative spirit embarked on a journey of artistic adventure. The self-portrait dates from...
Because they are humanized, these objects take on a marvelous, even clownish pathos. The blue vinyl mass of Oldenburg's Three-Way Plug - Scale A hangs from the ceiling, drag ging its prongs on the floor like a deflated giant; its sockets gaze mournfully at the room; one feels an urge to speak gently to the thing and soothe its defeat. By contrast, Oldenburg's Heroic Sculpture in the Form of a Bent Type writer Eraser, 1970, which was com missioned - and then rejected - for an office plaza on Manhattan's 57th Street, is a veritable parody...
...Griese knows, and his knowledge borders on the mystical. Take the blitz. "It's funny," he says. "Sometimes you can look into their eyes and you can tell they're blitzing." Buffalo Safety Pete Richardson is bugged by the Griese gaze: "He always seems to know which way I'm going. It's like he's looking into my head...
...unification. The great grandson of Baha'u'llah once wrote: "Leaders of religion, exponents of political theories, governors of human institutions, who at present are witnessing with perplexity and dismay the bankruptcy of their ideas, and the disintegration of their handiwork, would do well to turn their gaze to the revelation of Baha'u'llah, and to meditate upon the World Order which, lying enshrined in his teachings, is slowly and imperceptibly rising amidst the welter and chaos of present-day civilization...
...routine is not markedly different from those that 1,300,000 other Japanese will have followed before the end of this year. The two travelers and their entourage of 34 will visit Notre Dame, see the Little Mermaid in Copenhagen Harbor and ride a steamer along the Rhine to gaze at the Lorelei rocks. At Buckingham Palace, Hirohito might show his Empress the bedroom where, 50 years ago, King George V padded in wearing carpet slippers and suspenders, and boomed: "Everything satisfactory...