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...whole story. Hockney's responses to American landscape are broad and enthusiastic. In his painted work, these tend to be muted by irony or else lose their focus in conventional panoramas. But his photocollage method seems perfect for them, and the biggest work in this show, Pearblossom Hwy., 11-18th April 1986, sets them forth at full stretch. It is a scene both banal and grand: an intersection on the highway from Los Angeles to Las Vegas, the yellow highway line plunging out to meet the horizon under a great arch of pale blue sky, dry low brush...
DIED. George Voskovec, 76, Czech-born character actor, director and playwright who was best known in the U.S. for such Broadway roles as Einstein in The Physicists (1964) and Herr Schultz in Cabaret (1968); in Pearblossom, Calif. Voskovec directed and wrote for one of Czechoslovakia's most popular and influential theater companies before his anti-Nazi productions forced him to emigrate in 1939 to the U.S., where his screen credits included Twelve Angry Men (1957) and The Spy Who Came In from the Cold...
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