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...shimmer of color, sails in the light. Off the beach, past the rattling leaves of the sea grapes, two ambiguous planes meet: the shallow coastal water, slicked with weed, taking the light like satin; and the pale sky, colored the rinsed blue of a Tiepolo ceiling. A pelican lumbers by, just airborne, printing its ragged prehistoric silhouette on the fabric of the scene. Once again, as for the past two decades, Rauschenberg's art drains back into its source, the world...
Died. James A. (Jimmie) Noe, 82, protégé of Huey Long and the tipster behind the investigation that led to the 1939 scandal known as the Louisiana Hayride; of heart disease; in Houston. Appointed Lieutenant Governor of the Pelican State by Long in 1935, he succeeded to the Governor's office the next year, following the death of a Long crony, O.K. Allen. Noe served as Governor for only four months, choosing not to run in the 1936 election. He later turned against the winner, Richard Leche, another Long disciple. Congressman F. Edward Hebert...
Died. Alfred Bennett Harbage, 74, emeritus professor of English at Harvard and perhaps the nation's foremost Shakespearean scholar; of a heart attack; in Philadelphia. Editor of the Pelican edition of Shakespeare's works and author of such studies as Shakespeare and the Rival Traditions and As They Liked It: An Essay on Shakespeare and Morality, Harbage was scornful of all theorists who argued that Hamlet and Macbeth might actually have been written by Sir Francis Bacon, Christopher Marlowe or any other pseudonymous poet...
...about love himself. When the name Debby Bartosch came up in one casual conversation. Penny pressed Nick about her. "Aw, don't worry about her," said Nick. "You'll like Debby when you meet her." This was the Debby Bartosch who went with Nick and me to the annual Pelican Avenue New Year's eve party, and at which Nick and Debby were scheduled to perform a "crab mating dance" for the throngs. They somehow failed their scheduled performance and ended up wrapped up in the same blanket in the back room, both passed out over a bottle...
Pterosaurs-or pterodactyls, as they are often called-lived at the height of the age of dinosaurs. Equipped with batlike, leathery wings, long, powerful necks and pelican-like jaws, they soared across the skies for millions of years until their mysterious extinction about 60 million years ago. Although many different types of pterosaurs have been found in North America, Lawson's monster is apparently a new species; its wing spread is twice as large as that of any previously discovered flying reptile...