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...realism, was a single, living entity, pervaded by "cosmic" energies; these revealed themselves in "vibrations," the formative agents of all material shapes. Hence the desire to paint archetypal forms, so that Mondrian's rectangles and Kandinsky's floating circles are to be read as a kind of sacred geometry, pyramid power in paint. Hence, too, the peculiar use of light by artists like Franticek Kupka -- a shuddering, lyric vibration that implies the sublimities of landscape without describing them. Then there is the imagery of duality and paired opposites -- light-dark, vertical-horizontal -- and of synesthesia, whereby colors correspond to musical...
...serve any President in the postwar period." Regan dismisses such sweeping criticisms. But he does bristle at unfavorable comparisons between his White House (and he often sounds as if he believes it is "his" White House) and that managed by his predecessor, James Baker. Regan firmly believes that the pyramid of command he has established is more efficient and less susceptible to discord than the often uneasy troika that Baker formed with Edwin Meese and Michael Deaver...
...games. But even Frank is in the thrall of Ben (Dean Stockwell), an epicene drug dealer, who in turn is subject to the political power of a heavyset enigma in a yellow jacket. On that stroll in the woods, Jeffrey fell down the rabbit hole and found an inverted pyramid of moral monstrosity. "I am seeing something that was always hidden," he says. Now he can't take his eyes...
Despite inadequate compensation, life at the top of the nation's decision-making pyramid is a worthy career for young up-and-comers, four former Cabinet officials told participants in the symposium "Public-Private Career: Perspectives from Distinguished Public Servants" yesterday...
...current crop includes specimens of most of the genre's major varieties: big merchandise giveaways (Price Is Right), sophisticated parlor games spiced with celebrities ($100,000 Pyramid), R-rated competitions between couples coaxed into revealing embarrassing personal secrets (The New Newlywed Game). But most of the new hits are an odd throwback to an era of simple games and conventional contestants. Wheel of Fortune, in which players spin a giant wheel to reveal letters in a hidden phrase, is a variation on the old word game Hangman. At least three current imitators feature similar fill-in-the- blank word games...