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Which gets us back to why the Crimson is all alone at the bottom of the Ivy League, and gets us back to the peculiar nature of this weekend...
...read the last issue of the Crimson it struck me as rather peculiar that three quarters of the editorial page was devoted to the discussion of the grates that Harvard had installed and then removed at Leverett House. Not to belittle the plight of the homeless in Cambridge, that too is a great injustice, but when only one article in the Crimson is devoted to commemorating one of the greatest men in our country's history, something is defintely wrong--with us, the students. You'd think the crime of the century had been commited, the way angry undergrads ranted...
...mite too garrulous and fiddly to be the masterpiece many critics take it for, it remains an essential key to the shift of taste that took New York art into the '80s. In a catalog essay to this show, Art Critic Roberta Smith puts her finger on the peculiar character of Bartlett's work: "a series of reflections--of the world, of other people's art . . . a sense of manic cerebralism and arbitrariness, a distance, even an indifference . . . riddled with sophisticated obviousness." The work is set up like an automatic mechanism, but hand-painted in a capricious parody of pictorial...
That is assuming, of course, that Marcos will maintain Tolentino on the K.B.L. ticket. Given the peculiar twists and turns of Philippine politics, it is quite possible that the ruling-party slate will change before, or even on, Feb. 7. Under Section 77 of the Omnibus Election Code, which was adopted three weeks ago, any candidate for President or Vice President can withdraw or be disqualified at any time until noon of election day, and any votes cast up to that point will be tallied for the person from the same party who has been named to fill the vacancy...
...first glance, a painting like Cake Window (Seven Cakes), 1970-76, might seem to reflect the familiar Warholian message of pop: uniformity within glut. But no. Its target is specificity, the peculiar qualities of fluorescent light (no less difficult to convey than those of sunlight or moonlight), the lush mortuary blue of the shadows, the buzzing glitter of the whites. Light is trapped in the dense paint, and Thiebaud extracts a lavish, slightly mocking sensuality from the pun between the depicted work of the cake icer--smearing those layers of sweet goo, drawing arabesques with the forcing...