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Claude Monet, blind French painter and last of the great Impressionists, recovered his eyesight after a surgical operation at which his oldest friend, Georges Clemenceau, stood at his side to cheer him. Monet, 83, has been blind for several years. It is not likely that he will paint another of the remarkable "series" which made him famous. But he has recovered what he chiefly sought in art-the pageant of moving light...
Picasso. The last name alone is enough to sum up 20th century art. The Spanish-born painter went through several stages of development, each of which outstripped the lifetime output of other artists. His creative force was fierce and incomparable. The final assessment of him came only when an enormous retrospective exhibition in Manhattan in 1980 made it possible for the first time to see the myriad elements of his work all together and in perspective. He had been dead seven years, but the Museum of Modern Art's splendid show was, as much as any battlefront communiqu...
...Australian campaign has had an unlikely Nelson: Allan Bond, 45, a chunky, feisty Perth entrepreneur and onetime sign painter, who has spent $16 million in ten years pursuing what many of his countrymen dismissed as a manic obsession. This is his fourth bid, Australia II his third boat. In Ben Lexcen, 47, Bond found a naval architect who could radically change the design of a 12-meter boat, a field that has seen little technological innovation in years. In secret tank tests in The Netherlands, Lexcen developed a keel like nothing ever used before: with two delta-type wings weighing...
...hope to get the congregations involved in being volunteers, especially during Christmas and exam time when the student volunteers are occupied," said Painter, adding. "We need to bring people from the community in so we can make up for each other's deficiencies...
Some funding for the project has come from federal and state agencies, but most of the committee's budget comes from a $10,000 donation by a Harvard undergraduates who wishes to remain anonymous, according to Painter. The Cambridge Department of Human Relations has been responsible for securing other funds and supplies for the project...