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...Gathered penniless in New York in the politically volatile 1930s, artists boned up like magpies on a dozen different artistic idioms, haunting museums and devouring books when not studying at the Art Students League. Arshile Gorky, the Armenian refugee, was initially a devotee of Ingres, Léger, Matisse, Cézanne and Kandinsky. Robert Motherwell drew much of his inspiration from Matisse. De Kooning, the Dutch immigrant, was closer to Cubism and de Stijl; Pollock, the shy Westerner, studied under Thomas Hart Benton, and was influenced by Mexico's David Alfaro Siqueiros and José Clemente Orozco. They...
...Outcasts (Monday, 9-10 p.m.). Something new gallops across the TV sagebrush: a pair of racially integrated bounty hunters. In this post-Civil War oater, Don Murray is a penniless former slave owner and Otis Young is a quick-witted former slave. No Uncle Tom, Young can barely stand the sight of his erstwhile oppressor. Since straight-shooting hands are hard to find, he takes Murray on as a temporary sidekick. Whitey does not cotton to the setup either, and the two bristle at each other even as they foil a gold heist. A mutually respectful, but hostile, black-white...
...well-to-do prisoners are ever executed. "During my experience as Governor of Ohio," testified Michael V. DiSalle, now chairman of the National Committee to Abolish the Federal Death Penalty, "I found that the men in death row had one thing in common: they were penniless." In his four years as Governor, DiSalle passed final judgment on twelve men, six of whom went to the chair. The burden of their deaths, which still weighs on him, helps to explain the fall-off in the number of executions. For while judges and juries continue to sentence men to death...
Beards & Blondes. Never, in the 18 years since he fled East Germany as a penniless refugee, has Richter's prestige been higher. Many a city-notably Vienna-has tried to lure him from Munich, but he is not budging. Why should he, when bearded students, blonde duchesses, convent novices, bank presidents and scientists are fighting for tickets to his concerts? He lives a lonely personal life-smoking nervously on long, solitary walks along the banks of the Isar River, draining bottle after bottle of beer while studying at night. But his relationship with his public is a happy affair...
...jolted last Tuesday night. The school committee voted down a motion to give $6000 to a panel of five area educators, who were to help in the search for a new Cambridge superintendent of schools. And veteran Committeeman James Fitzgerald appears to have the votes to dissolve the now-penniless panel of advisors before it has a chance to advise...