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...collected in a book of the same name), Sontag railed against the type of writing about literature, film and painting that dissects artwork and leaves it dead on the examination table. She ended the essay with a stand alone line, unrivaled by other criticism of the era for its pith and spirit: “In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics...
DIED. RICHARD SCHULTES, 86, pith helmet-sporting father of the field of ethnobotany, which examines the medicinal and hallucinogenic uses of plants among indigenous peoples; in Boston. While his research inadvertently contributed to the 1960s drug culture, Schultes rejected the Timothy Leary and William Burroughs brand of "mind expansion." He collected more than 24,000 dried plant specimens, mostly from the Amazon. Some of the 120 plant species named for him treat ulcers, tuberculosis and conjunctivitis...
Many of his still lifes were lone objects like that: a half-peeled lemon exposing its snow-white pith, a warty green monument of a melon. But on occasion, especially in the 1860s, Manet would show his full ordering skill in a composition that anticipates what Cezanne came to in the 1880s. Still Life with Salmon, 1866, is such a painting, a wonderful balance between stability and its opposite: you can feel the weight of the fish and the density of the white tablecloth, but the knife in the foreground is precariously balanced, and the blue bowl with a lemon...
...uniform and tie. But after a tough day of reconnaissance in Mom's petunia garden, the general and company might want to kick off their combat boots and relax. That's where G.I. Bob comes in, as in Bob Hope, the first Hasbro Hollywood Hero. Hope, dressed in a pith helmet and leather jacket, will begin entertaining troops from toy-store shelves later this month. Unfortunately, he will be performing solo. Connie Stevens and other USO regulars have not yet been drafted for duty...
...PREMIUM ON PITH...