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First came a phalanx of women and children, and behind them the short, silent, barrel-chested men armed with slingshots, rusty rifles, and carrying Tierra o Muerte banners. Once again Peru's restless peasants were trying to chase landowners off their estates. The invasions have been going on for months, and President Fernando Belaúnde Terry has hesitated to intervene. But last week, when 8,000 peasants appeared at 14 haciendas near Cuzco in the southern highlands, troops drove them back in a pitched battle that left 17 dead, 32 wounded on both sides. Within hours, Bela...
...Neon Phalanx. Rejecting the scientific color of the French impressionists, even the acid color of the German expressionists, Pollock explored a clattering spectrum, an American neon intensity of pigments. He used fast-drying enamels, and aluminum paint to produce higher highlights than white could yield. He hit upon the idea that the paint could be the image, not just serve as its representative. He rejected the notion that paintings should have visual climaxes that smack the eye-such as a Mona Lisa in the midst of a landscape -and instead made every square inch of his big works bear...
Pollock inverted traditional perspective. Instead of a vanishing point, his paintings advance like a phalanx, enmeshing and engulfing the eye beyond peripheral vision-like CinemaScope. But Pollock believed that art was more than communication-an idea that led him in conversation to emphasize the act of painting more than the outcome. This, in turn, led Critic Harold Rosenberg to dub his style "action painting" -and the phrase stuck...
Detectives and Secret Servicemen continued to question the suspect-but Lee Harvey Oswald defiantly denied any guilt. Nonetheless, the police charged him formally with the murder of the President. Then, on Sunday morning, as a huge phalanx of guards prepared to transfer Oswald from Police Headquarters to the Dallas County Jail, a man moved toward him, stabbed a revolver toward Oswald's abdomen and fired. About two hours later, 1:07 p.m., the prisoner was dead. Thus the world might never learn what had gone on in that strange mind that had driven him to assassination. There was, however...
...Indians should expect a real run for their wampum as they do battle with the Crimson ruggers this morning. The first phalanx faces off at 11:30 a.m. on the Rugby Field behind the tennis courts as Soldiers Field...