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...began as a tale of two deadlines. By far the more important was set by Charles de Gaulle, who had stipulated that the Six must achieve a joint grain price by Dec. 15-or else France might pull out of the Common Market. At Brussels last week, his deadline was met to the day, and while this was a victory for De Gaulle, it was also a major victory for Europe (see following story). The other deadline had been set against De Gaulle's opposition by the U.S., which had insisted that by year's end, or early...
...matters sexual, according to Miss Sontag, Camp goes against the grain, cherishing either the androgynous, swoony girl-boys and boy-girls of pre-Raphaelite painting or the plangent supersexiness of Jayne Mansfield or Victor Mature. In art, Camp's exaggeration must proceed from passion and naiveté. "When something is just bad (rather than Camp)," she writes "it's often because the artist hasn't attempted to do anything really outlandish. 'It's too much,' 'It's fantastic,' 'It's not to be believed,' are standard phrases...
...JEREMY ANDERSON, 43, is a San Francisco sculptor who prefers working in natural-finished wood. He painted the upper reaches of his attenuated Composite Mythology green to harmonize its grain. Hardly shocking when compared with Brancusi, the slender shape looks at once like ephemeral femurs knocking on a knee joint and a pinch-waisted dancer on toe point...
TOSHIO ODATE-Radich, 818 Madison Ave. at 68th. This young Japanese New Yorker chins oak and walnut into shapes that look like giant snails or entwined cobras, extracts exotic highlights from the grain of woods. Through...
...will have to lower German grain prices to meet Common Market lev els, a move which Germany's inefficient, subsidized farmers dread. Proclaiming an attack on inflationary spending, Er hard chose to make his stand by refusing to grant increased benefits to war victims, and was later forced to back down. After appealing for moderation to the public, Erhard then infuriated everyone by raising telephone rates -and again backed down...