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Love-Smitten Minotaur. More portraits of Marie-Thėrėse follow before the dark features of Dora Maar, Picasso's next love, appear. There are some cityscapes, bright as a patchwork quilt, and later a series on one of Picasso's favorite themes, the Minotaur. This time, the artist was thinking of a legend in which three muses come upon the Minotaur dying on a beach. Two flee at the sight of his ugliness, but one stays to nurse him back to health. "Forever thereafter, while she floated offshore, he spent his days sitting where...
What has grown up is a legal crazy quilt. In New York, for example, saloons may uncork their Sunday bottles at 1 p.m., but Sunday baseball games may not begin until an hour later. In Pennsylvania, merchants may sell books on Sunday, but not records. In North Dakota, shoeshine boys may work on Sunday, but no one may buy shoe polish...
Support from Treasury. The crazy-quilt tax blanket that stifles the U.S. economy has been patched up but not basically changed since the 1930s, when only one in 33 Americans paid income taxes. With one in four now on income tax rolls, the law needs a thorough overhaul. For example, were all deductions done away with, the Government could raise just as much revenue as it does now simply by taxing personal incomes by 10% and corporate earnings by an estimated 44% (instead of 52%). While nobody is seriously talking about abolishing all exemptions-least of all those for children...
...geometric Anthony and Cleopatra by Philadelphia-born Man Ray, a couple of dreamy street scenes by Italy's Giorgio de Chirico. Among the younger artists, none were equal in quality, and some seemed to be more action painters than surreal. Robert Rauschenberg's Bed -sheets, pillow and quilt daubed with paint-and Jasper Johns's Target, with its anatomical sculptures, including a penis, were merely repulsive...
...when it was bought by Harry H. Tammen, a onetime Denver bartender, and Frederick G. Bonfils, who reaped an $800,000 fortune by fleecing Kansans in a lottery, the Denver Post bloomed under their cultivation into the wildest flower in the Wild West. Its front page was a crazy quilt of blaring headlines, many in red ink, and along the order of DOES IT HURT TO BE BORN...