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...want to get at something outside myself; one gets sick of looking at indulgent expressionist pictures that suck all the air out of the room." He prefers to think of his paintings as "diagrams that describe the way the world works," but one has to take this with a grain of salt. Actually, they come as much from minimal abstraction as from botany. The first time Winters painted a microscopic object was in 1980, when, seeking to relieve the monotony of a field of abstract color, he had painted in homage to Brice Marden, he decided...
Kelley, who operates a grain farm and cattle ranch with her husband and lobbies for the Rocky Mountain Farmer's Union, feels that there are serious problems with the nation's farm policy...
...middling reivews, Tracey Ullam's performance as Meryl Streep's kooky, off-the-wall sidekick in Fred Schepisi's Plenty was very highly praised. That newcomer Ullam was able to work within the constraints of an exceptionally poor screen adaptation of David Hare's play and against the grain of Schepisi's generally sloppy direction is a tribute to her acting ability and potential...
...Wednesday the Cap Haitien warehouse of CARE, the U.S.-based relief organization, was stormed and looted by slum dwellers. They trampled three people to death, then fought over canisters of cooking oil and 100-lb. sacks of grain...
...Council into a littlenoticed and lightly attended affair. But last week, in search of a bonanza, Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige and more than 400 U.S. business leaders descended on Moscow for this year's meeting. Last year trade between the two countries amounted to only $3.9 billion, mostly in grain shipments from the U.S. Yet the executives got a jolt of optimism from last month's summit talks between President Reagan and Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev. They came to Moscow in the hope that business would follow the banner of detente...