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...obsessively neat and faithful to his wife. But he was the purest dreamer in Paris, and they needed him. Miro had none of the Surrealists' political interests; the closest thing to a political painting he ever produced was a highly abstracted comic figure of a horse-policeman, with one red hand, presumably imbrued with blood, which may refer to Catalan street violence in the '20s. And his premonition of civil war was expressed in a single gloomy still life with an old shoe and a murderous-looking fork. Like most art that is genuinely inventive, as distinct from passingly novel...
...Moon, Animated Landscape and Landscape with Rabbit and Flower. It is as hard to account for the spell of the last of these as it is to evade it. It is quintessential Miro -- a field divided roughly in half by a rambling horizon line, the earth featureless and red, the sky equally featureless (except for the ceremonious care with which the paint has been deposited) and blue. In the sky hangs a thing like a bladder, with a thin black line dangling to Earth: the ''flower.'' The ''rabbit,'' a sort of yellow Shmoo, regards it from below. There is nothing...
...Kirk and Mr. Spock in the streets of San Francisco? The surprise is there was no surprise. Not a San Franciscan eye batted while the makers of Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home used a hidden camera to record man-in-the-street reaction to Kirk's glowing wine-red suit or Spock's white robe and ear- covering headband. Just didn't seem strange enough to stand out in the city by the bay. ''One lady even approached me after watching the shoot,'' reports Leonard Nimoy (Spock), ''and said, 'I thought you were a monk or a priest...
Ever since the disaster, rumors have swirled throughout the country: that Chernobyl survivors could spread radiation like a contagious disease; that victims have been placed in lead coffins and buried in unusually deep graves; that vodka and red wine are effective antidotes to radiation. During a visit to Budapest, Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev told Hungarian factory workers, ''Chernobyl has warned us once again: man has set in operation a really fantastic force that must be strictly controlled.'' It was a telling message that surely reverberated last week through the lifeless silence of Pripyat...
...islands of the Inside Passage, the jagged, snowblown Chugach mountain range. Landfalls are on a different scale. Skagway is a small, ramshackle old gold-rush boomtown made cheerful and shiny for tourists. Juneau, a brisk, up- all-night little city of 30,000, is the place to visit the Red Dog Saloon at twilight, which falls somewhere around midnight, and see the St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Church, a tiny jewel box built in 1894. It is also a place to catch the scent of fear among businessmen who depend on boomtown prosperity. Alaska's oil boom has busted, but tourism...