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Kentridge: He was so dangerous he had to lie on his mat in chains for 48 hours...
...Nude in Profile, 1977, displays her pubescent body with the columnar grace of a figure by Piero della Francesca; light flows around the shallow curve of the wall and invests her outline with a hushed archaic permanence; many coats and scumblings of paint have given her flesh the porous, mat quality of fresco plaster. Balthus' art is about stabilizing the eye, and giving measure, proportion and distance to what it extracts from the world. The rooms in which his figures pose are all ideal architecture: their orthogonal emptiness is the stage for a subtle play of forms in which...
...very strong in football," noted Frank H.T. Rhodes, considering Cornell University's door mat status on the gridiron this season. "But we're very good at Frisbee." The British-born geologist, who this week will be formally inaugurated as Cornell's president, may not help his school's pigskin standings, but no matter. "The great universities are those in which people grow by contact with others in ever-widening circles," insisted Rhodes, 51, after suiting up in his new Cornell colors to throw the old platter around...
This is especially true of the family whose story forms the core of the film. There is an old man (Roberts Blossom), a senile mumbler who springs to youthful life when he is gossiping with truckers; his caretaker son (Paul Le Mat) who sets himself up as a kind of CB vigilante, policing those who abuse CB privileges; an athletic-coach brother (Bruce McGill) who hates both of them and anonymously threatens vengeance on them; a schoolteacher (Candy Clark) who has had it off with both of them, but who turns out to be the aforementioned dirty talker...
...what he called the Life Force. He had a messianic faith that natural selection by the Life Force could enable man to produce an improved species of Homo sapiens, which presumably could comprehend the ultimate meaning and purpose of existence. That is his rationalizing sanction of the mat ing of Jack Tanner and Ann Whitefield. They might produce a brainy superbaby...