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Since Kalanta's suicide, three other Lithuanians have also set themselves on fire in political protest. Further evidence of how high tensions are running in Lithuania came last month at an international handball tournament in Vilnius, which suddenly turned into an anti-Russian demonstration. Students jeered the Russian players and cheered the foreign participants. They refused to stand for the Soviet national anthem, passed out anti-Soviet leaflets, and even hoisted the national flag of independent Lithuania. Most recently, the Soviets dismissed Lithuania Agitation and Propaganda Chief Pranas Mishutis, the man in charge of keeping the lid on Lithuanian...
There are many claimants, from Picabia to the obscure Lithuanian Ciurlionis. But if one angles the question a little and asks who was the first painter to produce a major life's work from systematic abstraction, there is only one answer: Wassily Kandinsky, who was born in Moscow more than a century ago, in 1866, and died in France...
...little bit mistaken about McGovern. I thought he had just a following of the kids. But I went to hear him speak over at the Lithuanian club. He can talk to you on the local level. He picks up on things real quick, and he doesn't seem to need a lot of counselors blowing...
...Where were the great women artists? Silence. "The fact of the matter is," argued Art Historian Linda Nochlin in a brilliant essay for Art News, "that there have been no supremely great women artists, although there have been many interesting and good ones; nor have there been any great Lithuanian jazz pianists, nor Eskimo tennis players, no matter how much we might wish there had been...
Divorced. Laurence Harvey, 43, Lithuanian-born star of films made on both sides of the Atlantic (Room at the Top, Summer and Smoke, Of Human Bondage, Hurry Sundown); by Joan Harvey, 50, widow of Columbia Pictures Head Harry Cohn; because of irreconcilable differences; after three years of marriage, no children; in Santa Monica, Calif...