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...broad brush-is a lesson in decisiveness. It would be hard to think of more fluent paint handling in current art than the set of three views of the tiled tank, named Pool, 1983. One reads it from left to right; each time the eyeline - obviously derived from handheld photos, whose careless tilt is preserved - rises a little more, so that the final image, where one looks almost straight down at the pool bottom, presents a shock like the revelation of evidence...
...have already won plaudits for the design and manufacturing quality of their machines. Says Marian Murphy, a vice president of ComputerLand, the largest retail computer chain, which has 210 stores in the U.S.: "Their hardware is as good as the American hardware." Experts are particularly impressed by the small handheld and portable computers that Japanese firms are producing...
When the Pope arrived in Tokyo, there were no military bands or honor guards to greet him. But John Paul dazzled many with his well-rehearsed and easily understood Japanese, his grasp of Asian history and his untiring willingness to belt out Polish folk songs on a handheld mike and dance with kindergartners at a Tokyo youth rally. In Nagasaki, the historic center of Japanese Catholicism, the crowds were larger: 47,000 stoically endured a freak February blizzard to attend an outdoor Mass. Eventually more than 300 people had to be taken to first-aid stations because they were suffering...
...Japanese are expected to enter the market with state-of-the-art machines that will be cheaper than competing American products. The first arrival is likely to be NEC, one of the world's largest telecommunications and electronics firms. Shortly thereafter Matsushita is expected to start selling a handheld computer under its brand names Quasar and Panasonic. An informal poll of American computer executives revealed that they expect the Japanese to capture a third of the market by 1985. Says Radio Shack Vice President Jon Shirley: "The Japanese are bound to be competitive, and I worry about the Japanese...
...Prinsendam is to be determined by a Dutch investigation. Preliminary accounts indicate that a fuel line may have broken, causing diesel oil to spurt on hot pipes and burst into flames. The fire knocked out the electrical system, shutting down the fire-fighting pumps. Crewmen sprayed carbon dioxide from handheld extinguishers, but could not keep the flames from spreading to other parts of the ship through an air shaft...