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...renewal has been suggested. Thus far, the idea has been discussed by the city officials, but nothing official has been proposed. The questions raised by the Library complex are serious ones that fundamentally affect the University environment. The issues of development crystalized this year; the course of development will loom large through the next decade...
Richard Lindner's art comes on with the blaring oompah of a brass band. His subject is people-notably women. They are overripe nymphets whose hearts belong to Dada. Emblazoned in garish circus colors, more powerful than comic-book Supermen, his colossal caricatures loom like contemporary Baals...
...virtues. "A kind man, a Christian, a gentleman," intoned Oklahoma's Carl Albert. "No human being has ever been more human," chimed in South Carolina's Mendel Rivers. "When the history of this era is written," apostrophized Louisiana's Hale Boggs, "no name will loom larger...
While Renoir painted great peasant nudes who loom like earth goddesses, Glackens painted the girl-next-door on Main Street or in Greenwich Village. And if Glackens' peachy women have downcast eyes, it is not from sadness but wistfulness for a world that would never be the same. They seem ready to hope more than to rejoice, like closeted daughters waiting to make a debut and sport their beauty-which both they, and American art, were about to do, in fewer years than even the most optimistic imagined...
...Paris when Gustave Eiffel built his 984-ft. tower for the Paris Exposition in 1889. There was still more when he did not tear it down afterward. Now the graceful Parisian skyline will be altered even more drastically-by a proposed 55-story office building that will loom over Saint-Germain-des-Prés like an enormous elliptical cigarette case, dwarf Notre Dame and top out 20 feet higher than the lofty tip of Sacré-Coeur...