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...only as a stylist but as a moral example of commitment and aesthetic ambition, was much greater than has usually been supposed. His way of rilling a canvas with broad fields of color "tuned" by dispersed accumulations of detail (a cluster of rocks, a flurry of waves, a knot of seaweed, a post or two) had everything to do with the compositional procedures of color-field painting in the '60s. So did his liking for dilute, discreetly modulated washes of pure pigment that stained the canvas rather than...
Sophomore midfielder Inga Larson put in the ensuing penalty kick to knot the score at 1-1 Regulation time expired with yet another fruitless Crimson flurry in front...
...discovered that their fates have become deeply intertwined. However expertly the evacuation of the P.L.O. fighting force is handled, its removal from the scene will pose dangers to at least one of the Lebanese communities, the Muslims, as well as to the Palestinians who are left behind. Untying this knot, without undue risk to the parties concerned, is perhaps the trickiest part of the task that still confronts the negotiators on the hill above Beirut. ?By William E. Smith. Reported by Johanna McGeary/Washington and William Stewart/Beirut...
...hand of any noble in his court. Helena chooses Bertram. Aghast, the snobbish youth flees to the Florentine wars, leaving word that he will only acknowledge Helena as his wife when she secures the ancestral ring on his ringer and is pregnant with his child. To cut the Gordian knot of the plot, Helena achieves just that...
...daydream of an alternative self is a strange, flitting thing. This wistful speculation often occurs in summer, when a vacation loosens the knot of one's vocational identity. Why, dammit, says the refugee from middle management on his 13th day on the lake, why not just stay here all year? Set up as a fishing guide. Open a lodge. We'll take the savings and . . . The soul at odd moments (the third trout, the fourth beer) will make woozy rushes at the pipe dream. Like a gangster who has cooperated with the district attorney, we want...