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...ghost of NCAA Past continues to haunt the Harvard hockey team. For the third time in the past three tries, the Crimson squad has started with what has apparently been a solid lead, only to be spooked in the third period...
...contribution is Citizen Kane (1941), which stunned the film world with its remarkable cinematic control and invention and did for post-World War II cinema what D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation had done for cinema before the '40s." However, the old man's ghost soon walked again. By the later editions, Loynds' paean to Citizen Kane had vanished from the story on orders of the managing editor for "extreme editorializing...
...Ghost Town. Originally, 22 Washington aides followed Nixon to San Clemente, most of them still drawing their Government salaries. Concerned about their future, many have left. With the departure this week of another half a dozen, only five full-time aides will remain, including Personal Secretary Rose Mary Woods and former Nixon Speechwriter Franklin Gannon, who will help research Nixon's memoirs. He will draw a $34,000 salary. There will still be some 30 Secret Service men alternating duty in protecting the Nixons, but generally, lamented one departing secretary, "it will be a ghost town around here...
...pretty boy with a curving wrist and a swing in his gait." Modern art was unintelligible to the people. Yet, in the end, one wonders if the tribunal to which Benton submitted his work and attitudes was not some jury of average, sensual Midwesterners but rather the ghost of his father, a stumping, swilling, iron-throated Ozark Congressman whom he revered. "Dad was profoundly prejudiced against artists, and with some reason. The only ones he had ever come across were the mincing, bootlicking portrait painters of Washington who hung around the skirts of women at receptions and lisped a silly...
...convey the subtleties of light and opacity Rauschenberg's method gives. The mix of forms is pale, apparitional and exquisite. This seems a long way from the declamatory harshness of his old combine paintings, but in fact, it pertains to a continuous theme of Rauschenberg's: ghost images, traces. The white paintings were made white to accept passing shadows. The De Kooning drawing was not erased to blank: a phantom of it stays on the paper. Rauschenberg's illustrations to Dante's Infer no (1960) were pale transfers from newsprint. But the Hoarfrost prints extend Rauschenberg...