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...painter's brush. A very conscious part of his style is the way he rings his forms (plain geometrical ones, as a rule: rectangles, cones, cylinders) with zips of relieving color, orange, yellow or vermilion. When these work--and often they are little more than a graphic mannerism--they lend his images an indefinable air of instability, an apparitional flicker, a distant cousin of the twitching, fluttering profiles in Giacometti. But it is the density of the paint that anchors the image every time. It gives the surface a rich, fiesty eventfulness. It makes one feel the subtle breaks...
Wall Streeters are wondering if CBS will become the next jewel in the Tisch empire. Laurence Tisch told TIME, however, that he will lend his advice and expertise to the network rather than try to take charge. Says he: "I have no intention of running the board or CBS or interfering in any of their operations." He also maintains that he will buy no more than 25% of the company's stock...
...stately combat of conflicting points of view, whether about feminism and prostitution in Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession (1902) or about the moral impact of colonialism in Tom Stoppard's Night and / Day (1978). The excitement comes from hearing important arguments stirringly phrased: plays of ideas lend themselves more to epigrams than to cathartic resolutions, and typically end by depicting a withered landscape on which there are only losers...
...short- term jams. Until now the Administration has been unsupportive of the World Bank, which traditionally makes loans mostly for bridges, dams and other development projects. Viewing the institution as too indulgent of left-wing regimes, the Administration has even cut back the amount of money it could lend...
...burdens, the U.S. now believes that their only hope lies in faster economic growth. To achieve that goal, Washington thinks the IMF should enlist the help of the World Bank, a cash-rich agency that has largely remained aloof from the debt thicket. The Administration wants the bank to lend money more broadly and follow up the loans with long-term economic guidance for the debtors...