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...paintings, but it is evident in the severely geometric white reliefs Nicholson did in the 1930s under the spell of constructivism and Mondrian, and it pervades his later work. The viewer is always aware of material gently asserting itself: how the tobacco-brown hardboard, rubbed and glazed with a pow dery white or blue that clings to its sur face like fog to a headland or lichen to a rock, has the reality of paper as well as the metaphoric function of paint. The work is seldom fully abstract however. The predilection for landscape that runs through English art surfaced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Landscape on a Tabletop | 1/22/1979 | See Source »

Superman pulls out of his funk at the end of the show of course; his overwhelming desire to do good triumphs in the face of Freudian psychoanalysis. During a song called "Pow! Bam! Zonk!" Superman trounces his foes, returns as Metropolis's hero, and wins the love of Lois Lane--who has been drooling after him throughout the entire show...

Author: By Mary G. Gotschall, | Title: Faster Than a Speeding Bullet | 11/8/1978 | See Source »

LeBoutillier is disillusioned. As an undergraduate, he had offered his help to a former POW running for the Senate against George McGovern in South Dakota. The college kid raises $250,000 for the ex-POW and all of a sudden LeBoutillier is a hot prospect for both the Ford and Reagan fund-raising teams--or so he says. But he finds the Republican Party has "lost its soul." What the party and the country needs, he believes, is another Homestead Act--to return Americans to the land and their families; to recapture the spirit of 1862 without having to give...

Author: By Jon Alter, | Title: Harvard Hates LeBoutillier | 10/14/1978 | See Source »

Chew Brew Peppermint, spearmint, cinnamon and other traditional stick flavors are old chew to the growing band of gumo-philes who prefer to make their own. Using a powdered gum base called POW!, combined with corn syrup, confectioners' sugar and just about any flavoring and color imaginable, chew-it-yourselfers can concoct a 25-ft. length of bubble gum from a $2, 2-lb. package of mix-about half the price of the manufactured product. Says POW! Entrepreneur Fred Starkey: "If scotch is your favorite drink, flavor it with scotch. If you like fruit cocktail, use that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Odds & Trends | 8/28/1978 | See Source »

...Southern says did sit in on such meetings--Harvard Stephens '77-3--says he attended only one meeting in February (shortly after his return to Harvard following a semester off), adding that his presence at that meeting "does not indicate an inclination among students to participate" in Afro faculty pow-wows. Stephens has not attended another meeting since then...

Author: By Joseph L. Contreras, | Title: A department with no professors | 6/16/1977 | See Source »

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