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Probably Hesse's leaning to the personal, the bodily and the autobiographical would have come out in her art anyway -- she began as a painter of Expressionist heads, vaguely along the lines of Munch's The Scream -- but it was certainly helped by a year's visit to the German city of Dusseldorf in 1964-65. There Hesse came to know the work of Joseph Beuys and the post-Dada Fluxus group. From that point on -- accelerated by her admiration for artists like Dubuffet and Claes Oldenburg -- she grew more and more interested in whatever did not pertain to sculpture...
...generation may have better luck. Euro-centrism is dying, and with it the reflexive Europhilia of audiences. The new operas are eclectic, tuneful and frankly crowd pleasing. Once again, new music is where the action, and the money, is. Let the Europeans munch on the indigestible tone rows of Aribert Reimann or the pretentious obscurity of Sir Michael Tippett. Americans want something with a beat they can virtually dance to. In McTeague, they have...
...Game Your friends come up from Yale--what to do? You go to the game, have a bad beer or two, and munch raw U.C. burgers. Then you go into the stands and watch that spheroid hurl down the field into the hands of Yale players. (We're going to lose.) But you'll pretend to have fun in the 20 degree weather anyway, discussing with your butt-cold friends your plans for the evening. Of course, there's always a chance that the Crimson will actually play a good game--it happened, after all, as recently...
...pastures surrounding the ponds and marshes of the Pantanal, herds of capybaras, the world's largest rodents, munch on the native grasses. Hyacinth macaws, the world's largest parrots, nest in trees and crack palm seeds disgorged by cattle, which eat the fruit around the nut. According to Charles Munn, an ornithologist with Wildlife Conservation International, the cattle fill a niche formerly occupied by extinct giant sloths, which dined on palm seeds thousands of years before the first Portuguese settlers arrived. This happy coincidence is one reason why humans here get along with the 80 species of mammals, 230 kinds...
...moviegoers munch their popcorn before the main feature starts these days, many of them see an earnest commercial in which actor James Earl Jones urges President Bush to make a vital trip to Brazil this June. People who want to deliver the same message directly to the White House can call an 800 number and for $6.95 send a personalized "Earth Telegram" to Washington...