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Popular in our time, unpopular in his. So runs the stereotype of rejected genius, which identifies Caravaggio as the first avant-garde artist. Our time, with its craving for rapid and unnerving change in the look of art, was bound to love Caravaggio. He was called an evil genius, an anti-Michelangelo; his work was compared to an overpeppered stew, and it became a favorite pretext for centrist finger wagging in the 17th century...
ALMOST ANYBODY WHO is familiar with the legally enforced segregation which the government of South Africa imposes on the non-white majority of that nation agrees that the injustices must come to a rapid conclusion. But concerned parties have never been able to agree on the best policy for instituting reform in that backward nation...
...first concentrated uproar over budget-based sacrifices was not long in arriving. In testimony before a Senate committee, Budget Director David Stockman decried the rapid growth in agricultural subsidies, which would be severely reduced under Reagan's spending proposal, and military retirement costs, which would not. Spokesmen for the two constituencies expressed outrage at being singled out as budget busters, and Stockman's dismissal was demanded...
Fears of possible gentrification haunt the advocates of the proposals. Many of them see the rapid influx of larger businesses as an instruction that threatens to destroy the city's diverse social fabric threeatents to destroy the city's diverse social fabric. They worry that uncheeked development will replace a Cambridge made up of construction workers and professors, the wealthy on Brattle Street and the ethnic neighborhoods to the east with while dollar professionals attached to the universities and high-tech firms. Only more affordable housing they say, can keep low, and moderate income people in the city...
Before her hypnosis dance ends 15 more dancers join her. Against sets of changing colors--hot pink to floaresent green to bright orange--three groups of dancers move to the rapid beating. Each group does rib, hip and arm isolations in sequence. They continue to dance in cycles--spending to the floor contracting, relaxing and leaping. Regardless of the speed of the steps, the dancers are always synchronized. The rich, full impressions on colors and rapid-fire movements are absolutely stunning...