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Visitors to Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art have seen everything from eggbeaters to garbage cans displayed as works of art. Last week it was automobiles. On crushed stone runways in the museum's first-floor galleries and garden stood shining examples of what the museum calls "hollow rolling sculpture...
...desertion" was too much for even Cowper's "passive valor." "I now see a long winter before me," he wrote bleakly in September 1783, "and am to get through it as I can. I know the ground before I tread upon it; it is hollow, it is agitated, it suffers shocks in every direction; it is like the soil of Calabria, all whirlpool and undulation; but I must reel through it-at least if I be not swallowed...
What gave the President's message a hollow and political ring was a fact he notably failed to mention: wages and farm prices, just as much as manufacturers' prices, need sterner control...
...word went to U.S. ambassadors at the United Nations and in Moscow: sound out the Russians. At the U.N., the sounding produced only hollow noises. Russia's Jacob Malik, who had floated the first hint of peace, holed up in his Glen Cove mansion, claiming illness. One night he appeared as host at a U.N. dinner, tuxedoed and healthy-looking-but he dodged all questions about a ceasefire...
Last week in London, Ayrton, now 30, closed the most successful show of his career: drawings and paintings in somber greys, yellows, and greens of hollow-eyed men, women & children with thin, bony figures and a quality of patient loneliness. "My fundamental interest is human beings," he explains. "The most important moments in life are those which occur when two people feel so intensely related to one another that there is nothing to say. Words being absent, appearance is everything...