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Abstraction is the dominant mode in the U.S. right now and accounts for approximately 50% of the paintings at the Whitney. How varied nonobjectiveness can be is illustrated by the op grids of Cleveland's Julian Stanczak as well as by the empty canvas of Manhattan Minimalist Robert Mangold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Neck & Neck | 12/22/1967 | See Source »

The President may, of course, opt for some sort of sharp escalation early next year to give the illusion that peace is on the way. But it is unlikely that the nation, as a whole, would buy such a performance. It is the Republicans who are exploiting Mr. Johnson's...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Republicans' New Road to Victory | 12/9/1967 | See Source »

The bizarre concreteness of this alien reality seduces us to accept the fantasy. The convincing stylistic precision restrains the unreal reality from becoming nonsense. In the next paragraph we become involved in the magician who works to dream a man and "insert him into reality" and who later learns that...

Author: By Jack Davis, | Title: Jorge Luis Borges | 12/2/1967 | See Source »

The tragic coincidences prompted Ohio's Governor James A. Rhodes to request closure of the runway. Rhodes claimed that pilots approaching Runway 18 are buffeted by downdrafts over the hills and that the rolling terrain causes a form of optical illusion. Though neither of these complaints figures in warnings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Disasters: The Hills of Hebron | 12/1/1967 | See Source »

Through a grisly stage illusion, play-goers not only see a man guillotined but watch his head fall into a basket. To conclude this opening maelstrom of mayhem, Dr. Frankenstein opens the coffin of a dying girl for an operation to remove her beating heart and thus begin his monster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: REPERTORY | 12/1/1967 | See Source »

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