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...century, but he was certainly the most enjoyable of modernists--the man who delighted a public several generations long by making sculpture move. This year marks the centenary of his birth. Accordingly, the National Gallery of Art in Washington has put on a Calder retrospective. Admirably curated by Marla Prather, the show (199 sculptures plus other works) will move to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in September...
...Philadelphia-born Calder was a fluent and effusively industrious artist who made thousands of works, and Prather has done a fine job of winnowing the wheat from the chaff, of which, truth to tell, there is a great deal. Calder never seems to have had the smallest inhibition about his chosen career. Both his parents were artists, and he made his own toys, "always a junkman of bits of wire and all the prettiest stuff in the garbage can." Growing up, he studied mechanical engineering, took painting classes at the Art Students League in New York City...
...week elements of that scenario seemed to be taking root. On Tuesday the Democrats lost a Kentucky House seat held by the party for more than 125 years. Ron Lewis, an ultraconservative owner of a religious-book store, bolted from total obscurity to a victory over state senator Joseph Prather, the second G.O.P. upset in a Democratic district in as many weeks. Though Prather disdained Democratic Party money in his race in order to signal his distance from the President, Lewis ran hard against Clinton's programs. As a result, the 55%-to-45% vote suggested to many analysts that...
Republicans licked their chops over their victory in a special congressional election in which Republican Ron Lewis beat out Democrat Joe Prather for a Kentucky seat that had been Democratic for more than a century. Political analysts, as well as some Democrats, echoed the G.O.P. claim that the Democratic defeat underscored dissatisfaction with President Clinton...
...drug, ipecac, is being used in greater quantities among women and men of all ages with eating disorders, even though the drug may cause serious medical problems, Drs. E. Prather Palmer and Andre T. Guay reported in this week's New England Journal of Medicine...