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...classic studies of a nose or an eye, or how the subject folds her hands." Then, after several days of thinking about the subject-planning "the color, the composition, what should be left out and what put in," Bouche paints rapidly. "Painting," he says, "has to be spontaneous, to leap from the guts to the brush. It's like a bullfight. The man has 25 minutes to fight the bull. He can't think during that time, but all his life goes into the preparation...
Jenkins calls himself an "abstract phenomenist." When he has finished four or five paintings. "I have conversations with them, and they tell me what they want to be called-like Phenomena Outside Leap or Phenomena Curving Out or Phenomena Flint Lock." As James Jones said, it is sometimes difficult to know what the hell he is talking about. But his liquid abstractions can speak for themselves...
Undermine the Family. The cadres, eager to please Mao. set improbably high targets, kept workers in the fields from 5 a.m. to 9 p.m., and during the planting season even longer. By the end of 1958, in the historic "Great Leap Forward," some 550 million peasants in 740.000 cooperatives were swallowed up in 26.500 communes. "We must undermine the capitalist type of social living," said the official Communist organ. Red Flag, "We must undermine the family...
...smoke, Mary Clark Rockefeller found the stairwell of the century-old Albany Executive Mansion engulfed in flames, pounded on the door of Governor Nelson Rockefeller's adjoining bedroom, and together they crawled through the second-floor window onto a porch roof. Just as Rocky got set to leap for a clump of bushes 15 feet below, the fire department arrived, shot up a rescue ladder. After ascertaining that his wife and three servants were safe ("A miracle," beamed New York's First Lady), the Governor ducked back into his bedroom to retrieve six Picasso drawings, a Van Gogh...
...third early event that the varsity bombed was the broad jump. Zeke Azikiwe got off the best leap of his life, 23 ft., 3 in., to take first, and Al Albright tied Yale's Jim Axtel for second at 22 ft., 9 1/2 in. But the fun was quickly over...