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...known to attack their techniques savagely with humorous remarks or gestures. Policemen should be employed to go out and gun down all the easels that cluttered up the beautiful countryside, he remarked one day. And once, on passing an Impressionist canvas whose subject was buried in mist, he silently turned his collar...

Author: By Mark T. Whitaker, | Title: Where Classicism Meets the Left Armpit | 3/9/1977 | See Source »

Before our eyes mist up and get blearin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Seven Lords A-Leaping... and Other Seasonal Matters | 12/17/1976 | See Source »

Stand in Dunster courtyard some weekday night at about five in the morning. It's a spiritual experience. You can almost feel the exact moment when the night changes gears and the morning is ushered in, the early morning mist seems to be magically suspended a foot off the ground, the rowdies, the late-night wonks, the perennial socialites have surrendered to fatigue and gone to bed. Listen and look closer. Strains of a cut from Jethro Tull's "Aqualung" hit you. Follow them to their source, where, on the fourth floor of "C" entry loom two shadows illuminated...

Author: By Judy Kogan, | Title: A Long Night's Journey Into Day | 10/14/1976 | See Source »

...Syrians responded with a fierce artillery and rocket barrage from their positions in the Bekaa. As town after town was hit, Palestinian defenders took advantage of the mist and smoke from exploding rounds to slip out of their positions. Arafat himself had nearly been hit earlier when Syrian gunners rained shells and rockets into Aley, a resort town on the Beirut-Damascus highway where the P.L.O. leader was conferring with his military commanders in a luxury villa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LEBANON: Blows for the P.L.O. | 10/11/1976 | See Source »

...Rosy Mist. Running Fence, however, is his largest work to date-and like the others, it is scheduled to be dismantled within two weeks. "It will make one hell of a revival tent when it comes down," mused Pop Artist Jim Rosenquist, one of the group of artists, museum curators and dealers who assembled to watch the installation. "It was a beautiful birth, all rosy mist and hidden sunlight," enthused the curator of Dartmouth's Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Jan van der Marck, a longtime collaborator of Christo's. "It can't be owned or rented...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Christo: Plain and Fency | 9/20/1976 | See Source »

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