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...paintings Lichenstein completed between 1970 and 1972. With their silvery surfaces, reflection lines and bevels and breaks in the light, which manage to function equally as pattern and as illusion (the mirror, in art, being one of the arenas in which both can live side by side), these paintings possess a ravishing formal elegance...
When his father dies, young Riddley Walker becomes his village's "new connexion man," the one who interprets the shows and reality in general. Some of his colleagues think that Riddley may also possess "the follerme," a mystical ability lead others and to make things happen. Indeed, destiny tugs the boy toward the ancient holy center of Cambry (Canterbury), where an odd pilgrimage of people and elements has arrived. This combination, if successful, will result in the rediscovery of gunpowder...
...whole tradition of French landscape runs through Pissarro's work. He is a link between the weighty, materialist vision of Courbet and the molecular analyses of impressionism, and the best of his landscapes possess an unremitting gravity of construction. Everything in a painting like The "Côte du Jallais," Pontoise, 1867, is, so to speak, freighted with scruple, rendered dense by inspection-the blue air and clouds no less than the swatches of plowed and seeded field and the massed trees. Its low tones and construction by horizontal bands make one think of Corot, but its directness...
Since the 1950s, Japan's Liberal Democratic government has solemnly and repeatedly affirmed three basic principles about nuclear weapons: not to make them, possess them or allow them into the country. In 1960, with the signing of the U.S.-Japan Security Treaty, Washington agreed not to "introduce" nuclear weapons into Japan. Two weeks ago, however, former U.S. Ambassador to Japan Edwin O. Reischauer revealed that the two countries have ever since been living a convenient lie. In an interview with Tokyo's Mainichi Shimbun, Reischauer asserted that U.S. naval vessels carrying nuclear weapons have routinely visited Japanese ports...
...twice-divorced Mackey "chews on his gun sights" in whisky-fired night sweats. Welborn (one separation, compulsively neat) hangs upside down on an aluminum bar for his bad back, tormented by the loss of his altar-boy faith. But the blue knights possess a unique talent: as Captain Woofer, their boss, puts it, "Nobody's asking anybody to solve anything. I just like the way you two seem to clear every homicide." Seem is the operative word: they once convinced the department that a local cocaine dealer had committed suicide with a hatchet. As for nabbing real and careful...