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...Mughal emperors but remained obscure to the West until the 1851 Crystal Palace Exhibition in London. The result: a profitable European market was opened, production increased to meet demand, and, inevitably, standards and quality declined. Erwin Gans-Ruedin's Indian Carpets (Rizzoli; 318 pages; $85) is a particolored object lesson in how art is overtaken by commerce. Carpets and rugs from the 16th and 17th centuries demonstrate an imagination all but forgotten in modern examples. An antique Agra is alive with a profusion of delicate figuring; a new Agra is static and merely crowded. Inadvertently or not, Gans-Ruedin...
...object is to learn to discuss rationally," Fiji delegate and erst-while Milton Academy student Joe F. Toot said yesterday. "Our resolutions should offer real solutions to real conflicts," he added...
...eyes, and the family falls into convulsions of jealousy and hatred. Like the off-Hollywood films of John Cassavetes, A Nos Amours is less drama than psychodrama; it wears its artlessness as a badge of intrepid truth-telling. Bonnaire's artlessness though, marks her as an exotic found object and a genuine movie find...
...object of all the attention was Irishman James Russel, who not only won the event, but set a personal record with a loss of 55-ft.,8-in. Not bad considering it was the first collegiate competition the red-headed freshman has ever seen...
...cents, and liked them so much that he put them on immediately. When they left the shop and started walking down the street, a huge crowd of Chinese people followed them, laughing uncontrollably. Ott said that she had no idea if she or her friend was the object of ridicule...