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...serious threat to the nation's health or safety. They should wait until the research is in." MDMA boosters cite case histories to argue that Ecstasy can act as a catalyst in therapy by neutralizing emotional defenses. MDMA has been used to treat patients ranging from a painter with "artist's block" to abused children. "In the proper treatment setting, it can lower a person's fear of emotional injury," declares Santa Fe Psychiatrist George Greer, who has used MDMA with 75 patients. "A person can think about things, talk about things that normally would be too frightening to deal...
When Dubuffet died of emphysema last week at 83, he was the most honored senior painter in France -- indeed the most important French visual artist of any kind to emerge since World War II. In the past two decades alone, his oeuvre had filled eight full-scale museum retrospectives and countless one-man shows from Chicago to Paris. Large corporations like Chase Manhattan saw him as a wild pet laden with status, and commissioned huge, dull sculptures from him for their plazas. His fiercely polemical essays, long-winded but dense with aphorism, were collected in two thick volumes. (Nobody...
Although Roth deliberately focuses on male relationships, his incidental portrayal of women is suspicious. Cyd (Kathryn Harold), Blue's five-year live-in who abandons him for another painter; Candy (the late Carole Wayne), the voluptuous "submissive" S & M model for Blue's Fiorucci-style erotic paintings, and Liliane (Carole Laure), Eli's "ideal" woman, who works in a chic Los Angeles art gallery, are shown with such a distrustful distance that we never get far past their appearances. These characters are flat, like blank canvasses on which Blue and Eli project their own dreams and anxieties...
...this means being very selective: "I see any you of an making as trial and error, but in my case, it's been more error than trial." Ahr spends an hour or two each day in the studio, but, he says, he doesn't think of himself as a painter until the "last hour, because that's when I put it all together...
...painting is well worth all this hard work for Ahr, who says that he eventually hopes to spend half his time teaching art history and the other half painting. "The day that I feel somehow as a painter I can be a little bit of a breadwinner it will be much easier to decide to be a painter. Before that. I wouldn't be living in reality to spend time dreaming about...