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...little garden of the Busch-Reisinger Museum like an aristocrat who is more accustomed to walking across acres of a grassy estate. He wears a black hat, a black silk scarf, a black coat, black pants, white buckskins, and has the gait of a dreamer entranced by a grander age. It is not so strange that a man with such an uncommonly impeccable appearance should have created something inside the Busch-Reisinger entitled "The Exhibition of Perfect...
...report, in sum, portrays a growing industry that eventually will be looking for markets abroad but that is in need of equipment and technology. There could be good opportunities for foreign involvement, but Silin's realistic assessment of the difficulties China faces has doubtless dampened some of the grander illusions about a vast and voracious new Chinese market just coming in sight...
...behooves the U.S. to take a holier-than-thou attitude toward the Soviets and to spearhead a drive to boycott the Games in Moscow. The Soviet Union isn't guilty of doing anything in Afghanistan that we haven't already done in Viet Nam on a far grander scale...
...decade also had madmen working on a grander scale: Idi Amin, who slaughtered tens of thousands of his own people in Uganda; the Emperor Bokassa, who brought other homicidal variations on the heart of darkness to the Central African Republic. Millions of Cambodians and Vietnamese boat people were caught in the lethal politics of Southeast Asia...
...cult of the "well-made picture." From the beginning, Still's art-unlike, say, de Kooning's-set itself in opposition to the cubist tradition with its small scale, ambiguities of space and geometric calibration. What he wanted, and had found by 1947, was a much simpler, grander and more declarative kind of structure: opaque, ragged planes of color rearing up the surface, emphatic in their brush-work-none of the characteristic cubist tonal flicker-and engulfing in their sheer size. If cubism was the art of hypothesis, Still would contradict it with an art of crushing visual...