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...elementary. But what the description leaves out is Bill's acute sense of color relationships and the cool, meticulous perfection of the skin of paint-a skin that makes the epidermis of Mondrian's geometrical abstracts seem coarse by comparison. In his exquisite judgment of value and hue, Max Bill is one of the great colorists in modern...
Last month a secret radio station in the region around Hue began broadcasting well-documented reports of rallies against Thieu. On September 14 a second station close to Saigon joined in. The NLF expressed great surprise in its own broadcasts, because no group--religious, students, or military--has the facilities in Saigon to broadcast without detection. Experts guess that a mobile transmitter is involved. The only group which is known to possess one of these expensive, hard-to-come-by devices...
...fiction, Henry Miller tussled with his suspicion that her art was too often the artifice of fiction. Nin operated on an emotional plane where she tried to sketch the world through people's fantasies about it, instead of through physical reality. By delineating her characters in the hue of their own dreams and flights or imagination--with barely a hint at the link to actual experience--she hoped to distill the purest state of love, or fear, or aloneness from them. By concentrating on private mental worlds--which Nin called "cities of the interior"--she aimed at poetic psychoanalysis. Bewildered...
Land Deals. The opposition first surfaced a fortnight ago in the shattered former imperial capital of Hue, where 5,000 civilians gathered in front of the city's Roman Catholic cathedral to protest government corruption. The complaint was familiar enough, but the specifics were startlingly new. In a document that quickly circulated throughout the country, priests charged that Thieu had profited handsomely from housing and land deals, that his wife Nguyen Thi Mai had taken a rake-off from running a hospital that admits mostly well-to-do patients, and that his brother-in-law Nguyen Xuan Nguyen...
...priests also accused the mother of freewheeling Information Minister Hoang Due Nha, 32, a cousin of the President's and his closest confidant, of profiteering in sales of subsidized rice in the largely barren central coast. Police roughed up some of the Hue demonstrators, but to avoid triggering trouble elsewhere, they dispersed the crowd peacefully...