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...pyrethrum. Their effectiveness, though, is limited to certain chewing pests and sucking insects, such as Diabrotica and thrips. Some synthetic poisons, for example diazinon, kill more kinds of bugs than botanicals but are also more persistent. The newest synthetic poisons are the highly toxic "systemics" (Di-syston and Meta-systox-R), which kill sucking pests after being absorbed by plants. On the market for only two years, systemics may eventually prove undesirable for garden...
...DARK. Harold Prince directs again. A thriller that is both dramatically melo and physically meta...
...years and traveled to 30 countries in preparation for it, is only a sign of the times. Sculpture, he believes, is "involved with specific objects, with facts," while painting "almost always maintains some quality of illusion, reference or metaphor." Says Fry: "The facts of sculpture correspond to the post-meta physical moment...
...Revolt. On the top spiral at the Guggenheim are displayed the eminents who died in the 1960s but whose work still seems relevant to the post-meta physical moment: the dadaist abstractionist Arp Giacometti's existential armature figures, the dynamic welded sculpture of David Smith, and the work of Burgoyne Diller, a precursor of minimalism. Next are the old masters whose common sensibility was formulated before World War II: Picasso, Nevelson, Lipchitz, Calder. Then come two generations of artists who, in Fry's opinion, are at once trying to escape from Renaissance definitions of sculpture and "in revolt...
...gifted sculptress Meta Warrick Fuller (a student of Rodin) has a small plaster statue inscribed "In Memory of Mary Turner as a Silent Protest Against Mob Violence." Mary Turner, whose crime was that of vocally protesting the lynching of her innocent husband, was in turn lynched by a mob in Georgia on May 7, 1918. The standard account continues: "Mary Turner was pregnant and was hung by her feet. Gasoline was thrown on her clothing and it was set on fire. Her body was cut open and her infant fell to the ground with a little cry, to be crushed...