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...Died. Oskar Lange, 61, Poland's Deputy Premier and chief economic planner, leading economist of the Eastern bloc, a onetime U.S. immigrant and University of Chicago economics professor who in 1945 joined the newly formed Polish Communist regime as Ambassador to the U.S. and later to the U.N., in 1956 revolutionized Eastern thinking with a then-heretical plan to revive Poland's floundering economy by decentralization and partial re-introduction of the profit motive; in London, where he had gone for medical treatment...
Stunted Growth. "Pictures must talk by themselves," Antes says, but many critics see a clue to his stunted gnomes in their resemblance to the deformed dwarf, Oskar Matzerath, of German Novelist Günter Grass's bestseller, The Tin Drum. As Antes seeks to show life from a different perspective, so Grass's Oskar, a moral hunchback who reaches his third year and refuses to grow any more, sees the world from chair level. There are striking parallels, too, between writer and painter. Both were born in the decade that spawned Nazism, both learned their ABCs in Hitler...
SHIP OF FOOLS. Grand Hotel afloat, with such passengers as Vivien Leigh, Lee Marvin, Simone Signoret and Oskar Werner expertly rocking Katherine Anne Porter's boat...
...bell. If they answer, fine! If they don't, I ring the bell again a year later." For Italy's Egidio Costantini, a balding man in his 50s, this persistent bell ringing has opened the doors of some of the world's most renowned artists-Oskar Kokoschka, Jean Arp, Max Ernst, Luis Fontana, Yves Klein, Jean Cocteau, Picasso. No avid autograph seeker nor voracious collector, Costantini is a contemporary Venetian visionary out to restore the grandeur that was glass four centuries ago (see color...
...nearly 5 o'clock. Technician Oskar Anthamatten worked on the balky engine of a bulldozer. In the canteen a dozen men drank beer and munched sandwiches. Some 50 others were still in the barracks, resting up for the night shift. Suddenly there was a dull groan from the sky. Glancing up, Roosma saw a long chunk of the curling lip of the glacier break off and begin to slide down the cliff, slowly at first and then in a quickening whirl of ice and rock and snow...