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Soutine's first U.S. major exhibition in over a decade, at the Los Angeles County Museum, offers an opportunity to review his accomplishments. With 90 paintings, the show illustrates his range of styles and subject matter. But the hardiest pictures are 13 landscapes executed between 1919 and 1922 at the Pyrenees hillside town of Ceret (see color opposite...
...that the Negro's attributes, coupled with the ordeal of slavery, have produced in him a physically superior race-a theory that gains strength from the Negro's extraordinary ability in athletics. The strongest African blacks were selected as the best slave material; only the hardiest of these survived ocean transport in slave ships; only the sturdiest of back and spirit endured slavery's arduous, degrading yoke...
...gallery. President Johnson was on hand to present awards to Pickering and two other Mariner scientists.* For cautious experts, the best of the photographs neither proved nor precluded the possible existence of life on Mars, although the planet's rugged terrain seemed hardly hospitable enough for the hardiest of bacteria. The pictures were clearer and sharper than anyone had expected. At least one of them -No. 11 - was described by Jet Propulsion Laboratory scientists as "one of the most remarkable scientific photographs...
Inevitably, some of September's is sues would wilt away before Election Day. Just as inevitably, others would sprout in full forensic flower. But last week, as what promises to be an extraordinary campaign began in earnest, perhaps the most extraordinary political fact was that some of the hardiest quadrennial issues did not figure to be issues...
...magical meaning, purposely put in as cramped a space as possible in a sort of protective return to the womb. Though in an area famous for its subterranean paintings, its very magic may keep the new underground art gallery from ever becoming a tourist attraction. Only the hardiest visitors could crawl down to see the treasures 320 ft. below the surface of the Lot Valley...