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The characteristics of the style are extreme, deadpan literalness of image, generally repainted from photos with an airbrush, immaculate precision of surface, and a taste for mechanical subjects such as cars, fire trucks and long expanses of shiny kitchenware. The average result is an almost unimaginably stupid and passive materialism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Realist as Corn God | 1/31/1972 | See Source »

Your letter to the Crimson said: "Not being a geneticist. I will not pass on the question whether ability is inherited or not. Speaking as a layman, it would seem to me reasonable to assume that inheritance is one factor; but speaking as a social scientist with some experience with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Musgrave-Herrnstein Letters | 1/20/1972 | See Source »

The sensitivity and flexibility of the interpretation is astounding. The two bourrees of Suite No. 2 are usually done at one tempo. Harnoncourt easily could have selected what he considered the optimum tempo for a bourree and simply plunged through both of them with metronomical precision. Instead, he slows down...

Author: By Kenneth Hoffman, | Title: Bach: The Four Orchestral Suites | 1/14/1972 | See Source »

What makes Redux exciting is, ultimately, the language. Updike again uses the terse, present tense sentences of Run, the texture of the novel deriving from Rabbit's rapid observations, what he smells, and touches. As the world crowds Rabbit, Updike's precision grows accordingly, down to the news stories Harry...

Author: By Michael Sragow, | Title: Updike's Rabbit, Back in Brewer | 1/4/1972 | See Source »

The Lore of Flight. Edited by John W.R. Taylor. 430 pages. Tre Tryclcare and Time Life Books. $30. From Leonardo da Vinci's arm powered aircraft design to the last entry (Zurich airport) in the book's splendidly detailed Encyclopaedic Index, this is the literary package best calculated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Deck the Shelves: For $275 and Under | 12/20/1971 | See Source »

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