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...artists who followed Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael, and Titian searched for new directions to advance their work from beneath the shadow of these great painters. Caravaggio pointed the way. So today, Stella believes, the successors to Picasso, Kandinsky and Pollock must seek a pictorial space as potent as the one Caravaggio developed at the beginning of the seventeenth century...
...racially troubled South Africa, a new and potent form of protest has emerged: the lowly T shirt. Worn mostly by black youths, the multicolored shirts bear antiapartheid slogans and organizational plugs. Security forces have often ordered demonstrators to remove the T shirts. Last January, Cape Town police banned all T shirts, regardless of their messages, in an effort to thwart protesters at the opening of Parliament. The order was met with public ridicule and was quickly rescinded by an embarrassed government...
...letters from disgruntled citizens complaining that those who merely wanted a glass of wine at family celebrations were forced to stand in endless lines with those stocking up on vodka. Soviet officials are apparently attempting to shift the country's drinking habits away from vodka and toward less potent beverages. The marketing strategy is debatable. According to Soviet health officials, the antidrinking measures are driving alcoholics to substitute such dangerous substances as methanol and cheap cologne for vodka...
This year's Crimson sports two potent offensive lines...
Forward Lane MacDonald, the least heralded member of last year's potent Firing Line, is steady and smooth. He skates slickly past opposing defensemen, ripping shots from all angles. Sometimes the shots soar past the bemused goalie and into the net. Sometimes the crowd--and his coach--don't know how he does...