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History & Drama. Venice remained his main proving ground. Though the paintings that Tiepolo is known to have done for the Doge have been lost, they led to a commission from the Archbishop of Udine, a member of the noble Venetian family of Dolfin, to execute the frescoes for the cathedral in Udine and paint the cycle for the Ca' Dolfin in Venice. Stylistically, Tiepolo was still feeling his way: his warm reds and yellows had not yet dissolved into the icy whites and blues that would dominate his later work; his vigorous brush had yet to master fully...
...independent film makers: exhibitions of Underground Cinema, Direct Cinema, and something the Marshall McLuhanatics call Expanded Cinema or Intermedia Kinetic Environment (IKE)-a sort of slap-happening half on and half off the screen. For movie goers who did not particularly like IKE, there was periodic excitement in the main tent. Seventeen nations were represented in a program that included ten or a dozen superb shorts and five fine features. Pursuing ever more strongly a direction evident for more than a decade, the new films showed more freedom of narrative form, more richness of visual vocabulary. The new moviemakers more...
Loosening Hobble. Then, last June, the Supreme Court encouraged those who argue that the 14th Amendment should be the main conduit of equal rights. By a vote of 7 to 2, the court ruled in Katzenbach v. Morgan that Congress may enforce the 14th Amendment by enacting a federal law that displaces a state law-even though the state law does not itself violate the 14th...
Soon after buying the Sacramento Union last May, Publisher Jim Copley began to concentrate his acquisitive tal ents on a bigger paper considerably farther to the west. Copley not only wanted to buy control of the 110-year-old Honolulu Advertiser, he also in tended to make it the main member of his newspaper chain; he even bought an apartment in Hawaii. By last week, though, Copley was convinced that Advertiser Publisher Thurston Twigg-Smith, 45, and Editor George Chaplin, 52, who between them owned about 60% of the paper's stock, were not about to sell...
...Round finally sat down to negotiate seriously. Present betting is that they will work out tariff cuts of 25% to 35% on most of the goods that make up the $184 billion in annual trade among nonCommunist countries. Said the chief U.S. negotiator, Ambassador W. Michael Blumenthal: "All the main participants now have the will to achieve agreement. There will be some cliffhangers, but I'm confident that in the end we will succeed...