Word: paintings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mistake. But the figure of Balthus's blond wife, hands stretched above her head, rising from the dark plateau into the zone of early-morning sun, is a prime lyric invention; and the color has a resonant, hallucinated distinctness that brings early Mird to mind. Balthus would eventually paint some of the best landscapes of his time. The pick of them, perhaps, is Larchant, 1939, with its luminous sheet of sky and its mellow, precise inter-lockings of building, field and mound...
...Claude like Landscape ofChamprovent, 1941-43. The more he cast himself as the last conduit of classical prototypes, the stiffer and more self-satisfied his work be came, a decline most evident after he moved to the Villa Medici in 1961. The measured suppleness of Balthus's paint surface now began to ossify, acquiring a thick, chalky, fresco-like appearance. It was meant to suggest the warmth and historical patina of old Roman walls, and so it did, but in a merely decorative way. "Pier rot della Francesca," the gibe of one of Balthus's contemporaries, hits...
...Millionaire Oilman Clint Murchison for $600,000 in 1960, the Dallas Cowboys were sold for some $75 million last week to an eleven-member local consortium headed by Multimillionaire H.R. ("Bum") Bright, who likened the purchase to art collecting ("You can enjoy it even though you didn't paint it"), and promised not to call any plays. "It will provide some return but not a good one," said Bright, whose 17% constitutes the largest share. "You would do better in Government bonds...
...reveals the South's new reconstruction: carpetbaggers who ar rive by jet from the Middle East to buy whole islands, the latest styles in scalawags and gentrification. Simons revisits Charles ton's old Negro market and finds that things have changed: "Bats, rafters, shale, pee, lead paint, clothes wads, the stuck bar ber pole, chili in open pots, all went to dropped ceilings for energy saving, parquet, rest rooms, pastel, jean shops, international flags waving in front of a deli store, and food described on a blackboard...
Crosby maintains that a major problem with U.S. industry is that supervisors consider occasional errors, such as ill-fitting car doors and blemished paint jobs, to be normal and acceptable. As a result, companies spend too much time and money correcting mistakes. He puts the blame mostly on managers who are inaccessible or vague in giving instructions to workers. Says Crosby: "Quality is a process like raising children. You never get done...