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...surprises-notably the suite of "hostages" by Jean Fautrier, human presences rendered down into a thick anonymous protein of paint, which were exhibited in Paris just after the Liberation (with a catalogue preface by André Malraux) and are still among the most striking images of pathos and mute, intractable survival that the war evoked from the West. The monochromes of Yves Klein, a curiously underrated compound of Duchampian dandy and body artist from the '50s, prefigure much that would happen on the conceptual fringes of the art scene...
...about the move away from city Scouting, they pass into the night. "Sure, kids today are different," says Scoutmaster Arthur Ferraro, 64, of Westerly, R.I. "But you get them out in the woods, they understand what survival means. That hasn't changed." Fires are doused, smoke rises in mute silence, the vast camp falls quiet to the sound of a bugler's taps...
...more from style than substance. Says a Reagan aide: "He's just too confrontational. If he could soften the edges slightly, it would make a big difference." Watt has been told to clear major policy announcements with the White House so that image-conscious aides can try to mute any potential public outcry...
...Mothers of Plaza de Mayo" (or "Mad Mothers," as they are called by some cynical Argentines) are engaged in a mute contest of wills. Their aim: to discover the whereabouts of their kin, among the 6,000 to 24,000 Argentines who disappeared during the fierce war against terrorism waged by the military after it took power from the country's hapless Perónist government in March...
...most pitiful--and insistent--of these bedraggled boozehounds was a diminutive and (we thought) mute gentleman who was called "Bosco" by the regulars. Whenever we went to the Shamrock, Bosco would turn up at least once an evening--stopped, filthy and silent. One day, however, he walked in, turned to the senior member of our group and spoke. "Hey you," he said. "Do me a favor: Kill the Mayor...