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...mushy quality it assumed in the middle '60s; his gestures occupy a curious middle ground between bravura swipe and pastelly softness, and the pigment oozes suggestively, a matrix of wavering depths. The sum effect is of sensual chaos, but modified with knowing flicks and placements: sprawl as form, luscious and-despite all the turbulence on top -lazily seductive. They are among the most accessible canvases De Kooning has made...
Throughout the northeastern U.S., June's heavy rains greened the countryside in splendid style, creating luscious lawns, luxuriant sprays of roses -and a mosquito crop that is big, noisy and vicious enough to turn the average picnic into a Schuhplattler exhibition. Says Dr. Thomas Bast, associate medical entomologist of the New York state health department: "This year's overall count is at least 200% higher than any other over the past six years. Some traps that usually catch about 25 mosquitoes a night now catch anywhere from...
...readily forgive a great many performers' foibles--harsh sounds resulting from nervousness, an occasionally self-indulgent glissando, embarassing intonations in enharmonic modulations, ostentatious riccochet bowings which don't synchronize--and so on. But when the composer's written indications of expression are disregarded, and extraneous ones interpolated for the 'luscious' effect of the moment; when the long, harmonically-directed phrases so characteristic of the composer's style are treated squarely, arbitrarily broken in structurally inappropriate places as the result of 'inspiration,' when the intense momentum of an approaching climax is suddenly choked by a needless luftpause--one feels disappointed...
...Eying a luscious brunette on one of his antismoking commercials for the American Cancer Society, Actor Tony Curtis smirks and says "I quit-cigarettes, that is." Tobacco, that is. Upon arrival in London last week, he was arrested and convicted on charges of possessing marijuana. The fine was only $120, but back in the U.S., touchy television stations-and all three major networks-announced that they have quit on Tony...
Inside other pavilions, there are some adroit and intriguing touches. The Mexican Pavilion features Aztec relics from the Mexico City National Museum of Anthropology, set off by a mariachi band. The Indians and Hawaiians have improvised a pacifier for impatient queues: luscious dancing girls in native costumes. For comic relief, there is the Cuban Pavilion, festooned with love portraits of Castro and Che Guevara counterpointed by hate pictures of Batista and bloated capitalistas...