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Greene's text is a touch parodic and patronizing, but Edward Ardizzone's marvelous new pen and ink and watercolor washes use the soft hues of Thomas Rowlandson to celebrate a detailed affection for Little Snoreing and its inhabitants...
That would be yet another torment for the inmates, some of whom have been in their strange purgatory for as long as 18 months. They are confined 22 hours a day in 6-ft. by 9-ft. cells, emerging only to eat and spend 60 minutes in the recreation pen. They are allowed one hour-long visit each week by a relative; visits by friends must be approved by prison authorities...
...almost dramatic in comparison with the works of the Italian artist Alighiero Boetti, the Frenchman Daniel Buren or the Australian Robert Hunter. Boetti's way of artmaking is to cover (or have his assistants cover) large sheets of paper with millions of tiny strokes of a ballpoint pen, thus turning all the paper blue except for some stray commas and capital letters which are left white. This laborious doodling produces now and again some pretty moire effects, like watered silk, but that is all, and the all is virtually nothing. It is, however, more than Robert Hunter...
...hope that Mr. Ferrara will see fit to pen another article dealing with the number of deportees to Mexico, especially during slack agricultural months, since the abolition of the bercero programs ten years ago. Additionally, he should address himself to the question of the union hall vs. the labor contractor system of providing farm labor. Half truths and omissions are far worse than complete untruths...
Taber reports that Giscard, an avid and critical reader of the magazine, attacks transcripts of his talks with a green felt-tipped pen -and a precise feel for English nuance. Giscard's editing affected the stylistic polish of his answers but not their substance, and what the French President said proved to be of more than usual interest to his countrymen. His remarks in a recent interview with Taber, Time Inc. Editor-in-Chief Hedley Donovan and Chief European Correspondent William Rademaekers (TIME, Oct. 7) were widely reported and analyzed by the French radio and press. Such scrutiny...