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STANDING IN THE TEMPEST: PAINTERS OF THE HUNGARIAN AVANT-GARDE, 1908-1930, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City. More than 150 paintings, drawings and prints along with historical newsreels and political posters, many not previously seen in the U.S., explore the flowering of modern Hungarian culture in the years before and after the war that was supposed to have ended all wars. Through Sept...
...Nelson Mandela's African National Congress says it won't even start negotiating on a new, nonracial constitution until the government acts to stop the black factional battles that have taken more than 6,000 lives in the past five years. The A.N.C. accuses the government and security forces of supporting Inkatha, its rival in black vs. black carnage...
...heard on the radio anywhere short of the far ends of the FM dial. But it's worth searching out. If there's a college station in your area, they'll play it; any record store that doesn't feature a life-size color cutout of the Nelson twins will probably stock it. A couple of the musicians' names will be familiar to connoisseurs: Richard Thompson, Paul Brady. More -- and this is the beauty part -- will be new: Chris Whitley, Will T. Massey, Peter Himmelman, James McMurtry...
...schoolteachers, Sayles grew up in a working-class neighborhood in Schenectady, N.Y. His earliest literary influences were Jack London stories, episodes of The Untouchables on TV and the Gospels at Sunday Mass. But it was the gritty realism of Nelson Algren's hobo novel, Somebody in Boots, that first gave Sayles the idea of becoming a professional writer. "Algren wrote from neck-deep in the trash of American culture, the only place I was ever likely to be," he says. After graduating from Williams College, Sayles supported himself with a series of odd jobs, ranging from nursing-home attendant...
...charges that security forces have aided armed attacks by Inkatha supporters on A.N.C. members. Since 1986 more than 6,000 people have been killed in black-vs.-black clashes, giving comfort to those who argue that inherent tribalism renders blacks unfit to be stewards of democracy. A.N.C. president Nelson Mandela has warned that power- sharing talks could founder unless the government can ensure the impartiality of the security forces, a notion Inkathagate now puts in serious doubt...