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...mullet pole for a baseball bat and tempt him with the upscale life. But every paternal gesture meets with failure or misunderstanding. His sex lecture about contraception, for example, leaves Simons with the impression that the body part in question "is some kind of electric eel or polyp stinger you have to insulate with rubber...
Close, 36, a tall figure with a patriarchal beard, works very slowly, his air brush patiently rendering each microform of flesh and hair like a polyp secreting coral. Each painting takes months to finish, and since 1970 Close has finished only 18 of them. Thus any show by him is an event of interest, and his current one at New York's Pace Gallery is no disappointment. It consists of three large heads - one of Close himself, two of his friends in the art world - and a group of studies and drawings for them. Self-portrait and Klaus...
Senator Frank Church, 51. Had cancerous left testicle removed 28 years ago with no recurrence of disease. Rectal polyp, presumably benign, removed in 1969. Suffers high-frequency hearing loss. Advised to control weight, but otherwise in good health...
...stage with such stellar Wagnerian sopranos as Kirsten Flagstad, Frida Leider, Maria Miüller and Helen Traubel. Despite his rigorous schedule, Melchior never canceled a performance, something of a landmark for temperamental opera stars. Once while he was in Götterdämmerung he developed a swollen polyp that choked him; he found that by holding his head to one side he could sing-and sing he did for three hours...
...style grates on the art world today; the euphoria of the '60s is over, and the acceptable tone is more cautious. Great museums-and the Met is one of the world's greatest -are, and should be, conservative organisms. They grow slowly like coral reefs, each polyp a work of art, some submerged, and others exposed as the tides of taste fluctuate. They represent a store of evidence about the past that is the indispensable raw material of cultural history. Above all, they are about interaction - between, among other things, "major" and "minor" works of art. If Hoving...