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...look at her work, and her recognition was slight, at least compared with the fame that surrounded that implacably durable Queen Bee of the art world, Louise Nevelson. Bourgeois belonged to no groups and was a complete loner; her work appeared to have a queer troglodytic quality, like something pale under a log, the vulnerable product of obsession but I with a sting in its tail...
...looked pale and weak as he stood at the lectern, but Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev, 75, was obviously still very much in charge. Standing behind him were senior members of the ruling Politburo, including Konstantin Chernenko, 71, and Yuri Andropov, 68, the two favorites in the battle to succeed him, and Defense Minister Dmitri Ustinov. In the audience were several hundred defense ministry officials and military officers who had flown in from all over the country and even from fleets at sea. Although Brezhnev's speech was frequently slurred, a result of his illness, he did not mince words...
...best of his land scape work Welliver has an emotional intensity that goes beyond the ordinary limits of realism in painting. Shadow is a stand of birches in snow: strong blue sky peeping through their pale trunks, and more blue scattered in the luminous dark clefts of the snow lying on fallen brush. Just above the middle of the painting, the shadow line of a ridge falls across the trees and the ground. The hill behind you becomes a silent, extraordinary presence: not menacing, not metaphorical, but a sign of what the Middle Ages called natura naturans: nature disclosing itself...
...which is the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Design, has organized and displayed this exhibition with its usual flair. Scandinavian design, says the museum's sumptuous exhibition catalogue (published in hard cover by Harry N. Abrams, Inc.; $45), "scatters flowers before your feet and lays the pale colors and mild beauty of the Nordic summer before your eyes. Less apparent is the truth that this sunny effect is achieved against a background of darkness, cold, ice and snow...
Gray-haired, pale and immaculate in his neatly pressed prison uniform, Michele Sindona, 62, retains an aura of the multimillionaire banker and financial genius. Now serving a 25-year term in upstate New York for bank fraud in connection with the 1974 collapse of the Franklin National Bank, Sindona was for years a financial adviser to the Vatican. Though he still insists that he was framed in the Franklin affair by powerful Italian state banking interests who would not produce documents that would clear him, he readily admits to being deeply involved in the events that led to the downfall...