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Except for a few intense and contorted still lifes, all the paintings in this show are of the human figure, usually centered, glaring outward with the dilated mania of the eye that first transfixed its audience in the preparatory paintings for Les Demoiselles d'Avignon three generations before. No exhibition in memory has been so full of eyes (or of anuses and genitals, his other fetish objects). The late work attacks and reattacks art-history themes, figures by Rembrandt, Poussin, Manet, Delacroix, Rousseau. It is culturally saturated, as well as drenched in his macaronic, theatrical and self-mocking sexuality...
...Princess Stephanie, 19, and Prince Albert, 25, joined by the President and Nancy Reagan, led the 600-person guest list. Princess Caroline, who took a turn on the dance floor with the President, shed a tear when he toasted her mother. Princess Grace, said Reagan, "possessed not only an outward beauty but an inward character, sincerity, strength of purpose and loving-kindness." When the last of the revelers had jetted and li-moed home, more than $1 million had been raised for the foundation...
...countrymen, Kohl was relieved to have the matter settled, though his prestige had suffered some what from his Defense Minister's ineptitude. As for Kiessling, he declared, "My honor has been restored for all to see." He added, however, that he did not have the "inward and outward strength" to resume his NATO post and instead would retire from the army next month...
Though China has nuclear weapons, it has lagged badly in developing atomic energy. The country has no operational reactors, mainly because it refused for many years to import foreign technology. Now the Chinese are looking outward. They have started a joint venture with the government of Hong Kong to build two French-designed reactors by 1991 in Guangdong province. China has also signed a preliminary agreement with France to buy two more reactors. Executives from Westinghouse and General Electric have paid several visits to China in recent months, but deals must await the signing of a U.S.-China nuclear cooperation...
...while Cozza keeps a very calm outward-presense, the fall has apparently been very tough on him. "This has been a dismal season for him. It sing," says Ryan. "He's not used to these situation so it's not as if he knows how to do this...