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Reason is, East never meets West anymore, and the twain ne'er looked farther apart. Except for one man's grid empire in the Alleghenies, all the East can boast is four of nine letters in "Southeast," indications this fall of renewed life in the Atlantic Coast Conference and a few scattered All-Americans and All-Easties playing in post-season bowls--including Harvard's Pat McInally (appearing at the Shrine East-West game in San Francisco December 28, the Hula Bowl in Honolulu January 4 and the Senior Bowl in Mobile, Ala., January 11...and in doing so, breaking...
...alumni/ae of the Museum of Fine Art's contemporary gallery are showing in the area this week. Katharine Porter's grid-like paintings are at MIT's Hayden Gallery, through December 21, and her "Works on Paper" are at the (believe it or not) Harcus Krakow Rosen Sonnabend Gallery, 7, Newbury St., along with the photo-realist paintings of Joel Janowitz, through December 28. Porter's work is very exciting, Janowitz's much less so, although I'd prefer his stuff to any of the current contemporary painting at the MFA. Entitled "Trends in Contemporary Realist Painting", the exhibit...
...always been research; and this quasi-scientific model demands a candor about means and ends in each painting or sculpture. Every painting of Bill's is in some way a demonstration of its own making. There are no "occult" design systems; everything can be deduced from a simple grid and from serial repetition. So in Construction from a Theme from 1946 (1967), the five main colors make their appearance in turn: first a stripe of blue pushing out the black at the top, then a lavender stripe displacing the blue at the left, then a red behind the lavender...
Alarmed BPA officials immediately ordered ground and helicopter surveillance of the more than 6,000 transmission towers that stand within a 50-mile radius of Portland. But the four states served by the Columbia River electro-grid contain some 62,500 towers, a fragile network that is impossible to protect completely. Once again an almost Mission: Impossible problem exposed the vulnerability to terrorism of complex industrial societies...
...Behind McInally:" If there were a theme song to be sung about Curtin's illustrious grid career at Harvard, that would...