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...sweet-souled wimp: he uses a gun only in defense of a friend; he is introduced to cocaine by his white wife, whom he finds in bed with a Hollywood sleaze bag. Instead of the fierce artistry of Pryor's comic monologues, he offers a decorous TV biopic: The Hallmark Hall of Flame...
...sees it, intuition, at least the successful kind, is something more than vague presentiment. The sifting of personal experience is an important part of the intuitive faculty. Rowan approvingly quotes the late Joyce Hall, founder of the Hallmark greeting-card empire, who called memory "the vapor of past experiences." Successful managers, Rowan recounts, have found some unusual places in which to enjoy those fumes. McDonald's Chairman Ray Kroc opted for a 700-gal. waterbed on which he and his aides plopped to think...
...Nevada explosion, designed to test the effects of radiation on American warheads, will underline in the bluntest possible manner the swift White House rejection of the Kremlin's latest arms-control overture. With the deft mixing of propaganda and substance that has been the hallmark of his style, Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev went on television two weeks ago, with no advance word to the U.S. through diplomatic channels, to propose that President Reagan meet him promptly in Europe to negotiate a total ban on nuclear tests. If the U.S. rejected the offer and continued testing, Gorbachev warned, the Kremlin would...
...deja vu? Katz's fans like to stress that his paintings are "deceptively simple," as though some mass of knotted thought lurked beneath their surfaces. But in fact, what you see is what you get, and his repertoire of compositional tricks, though effective, is not very wide. The hallmark of the minor artist is to be obsessed with style as an end in itself, and Katz has a near Warholian indifference to meaning: "I'd like to have style take the place of content, or the style be the content . . . I prefer it to be emptied of meaning, emptied...
...part of the college's extracurricular art program. If action is not taken soon, the studio will be gone, and Harvard will have shown a disappointing lack of commitment to the arts. Further, Harvard will irrevocably lose a thriving, established community of ceramic artists that has long been a hallmark of our college's commitment to excellence in the arts...