Word: jannings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Where, then, should a painter stop? Jan van Eyck took his scrutiny down to the limit of detail where the smallest legible form seems governed by a single hair of the brush: a painter's metaphor of the universal eye of God, marking the sparrow's fall. Perhaps that option is not open to a modern artist since the assumptions behind it no longer exist. In any case, Raffael (who, like any other young artist in New York in the '50s, was affected by Abstract Expressionism) wanted to keep handwriting-the visible gesture of the brush, done...
Governor Ronald Reagan last week signed a bill imposing a mandatory death penalty on those convicted of eleven specific kinds of murder. The California law, which will take effect Jan. 1, is designed to get around the Supreme Court's objections to the arbitrary and capricious use of capital punishment. If the bill passes constitutional muster, California will again use the gas chamber. Reagan, however, was not entirely comfortable about that method of execution or indeed any of the methods in use around the world, ranging from the noose to the firing squad and the guillotine, which was originally...
...editorship of Harper's that brilliantly exposed the machinations of the publishing business and "the literary pack" in New York. When she is not working, Curtis heads to Cleveland, where her husband, Dr. William Hunt, lives. When she moves to the Times's editorial offices on Jan. 1, she will become the highest-placed woman editor in Times history. That will not stop her from taking along her pink evening gown. "I won't need it as often," she says. "But I'll still need...
HARROWING. The poignant blue skies, the silver-clear air, the surf splashing on the rocky coast proved irresistible to Bob and Jan Plunkett (not their real names) when they vacationed in Maine four years ago. A year later, Bob quit his city job as a commercial artist, and the couple sank all of their $26,000 savings in a partially completed home 15 feet from the waves on an inlet in Maine...
...Segovia is definitely not retiring; he is contracted to tour North America for a minimum of eight weeks from Jan. 11, 1974, with recitals in major cities throughout the country...