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...docks in Gloucester, I remember doing a collage with pieces of cotton and a button sewed on the canvas and a piece of tin." Finally, in 1927, he "nailed a rubber glove, an electric fan and an egg beater to a table and, like Monet with his haystack, stuck with that single subject for a whole year...
...Face of the Enemy. All this vast deployment of men, minds and munitions is aimed at destroying the Communist Viet Cong, some 25,000 guerrillas who are as difficult to find, and as dangerous, as a scorpion in a haystack. No one knows what the U.S. is up against in the jungles of South Viet Nam without knowing the nature of the enemy...
Stave & Stupa. Johnson's recent work (see color) shows how far he has gone in breaking new ground while finding imaginative uses for old forms. The haystack-shaped shrine, set in a Grecian court in New Harmony, Ind., was built as a memorial to the Harmonists, a German Separatist sect that assured its own extinction by faithfully practicing celibacy. But to Johnson it suggests the stave churches of Norway and the stupa forms of India. Without its name, the Nuclear Reactor Building in Israel could be a medieval cloister, topped by a huge, 20-sided tower that seems...
...Modern displayed Monet's light-filled canvases in series devoted to a single theme-a haystack, a line of poplars, a cliff jutting into the sea, a cathedral. Guy de Maupassant described him at work: "No longer a painter, in truth, but a hunter. He proceeded, followed by children who carried his canvases, five or six canvases representing the same subject at different times of day and with different effects. He took them up and put them aside in turn, following the changes in the sky ... I have seen him thus seize a glittering shower of light...
...this haystack of applause there is one prickly needle of criticism by Nehru's younger sister, Krishna ("Béti") Hutheesing. While insisting on her love and admiration for her eminent brother, she traces a change from the young Nehru, who was "not by any means a saint but one who had strong convictions, ideals and dreams that could not be shattered by the influence of those around him," to the present-day Prime Minister, who is "so different, so unapproachable, stern, hard and even intolerant." Worst of all, laments sister Béti, Nehru "has allowed himself...