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...East 61st. The first exhibition since the death in 1959 of this protégé of Alfred Stieglitz takes a long look at the last 20 years of his career. During that time Tofel did not change much: he is always expressionist, always crowds his canvases with strange, misshapen humans and animals. His palette brightens, but the symbolism remains cloudy. Through March...
...reform commands almost unanimous approval, like free public education or the golden rule. Everybody who has studied the existing income tax structure, through whatever political lenses, agrees that it is a mess. It has grown up piecemeal over the years without any guiding philosophy, becoming ever more misshapen and complex, until today it sprawls over 468 pages in the Internal Revenue Code. It combines harshly progressive rates with an enormous patchwork of special-case provisions intended to mitigate the rates. "The first title of the tax code," says Mills, "states that all income shall be taxed; the rest...
Smith's show was singularly patchy and misshapen, and might have passed unnoticed save for the identity of one of the panelists*: Alger Hiss, who slipped State Department secrets to a Communist spy ring in the 1930s and was later sent to prison for perjury. Nixon, as a tiery young Congressman on the House Un-American Activities Committee, helped bring the Hiss case to light. On the air, Hiss, now a printing salesman, all but accused Nixon of framing him: "He was less interested in developing the facts objectively than in seeking ways of making a preconceived plan appear...
...miles. It deviated from its planned course by only one-tenth of a degree and four miles of altitude. Visible as the brightest stars in the night sky it was quickly sighted by observers in England. Australia and Japan. After it has been bombarded by meteorites and misshapen by the cold of sunless space, it is anybody's guess how long Echo I will remain on course. But this did not diminish the jubilation of scientists. Said T. Keith Glennan of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration: "It has been a long, hard road, but it is awfully nice...
...Manhattan's Roosevelt Hospital, Drs. Richard L. Golden and Charles A. Bertrand try to avoid the technical designation of "total anomalous pulmonary venous connection." They call the condition simply "snowman heart." Who coined the term is unclear, but it is especially apt. In the X ray, the enlarged, misshapen heart casts a distinctive white shadow shaped like a snowman...