Word: reflexing
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When California Republican Don Edwards rose on the floor of the House of Representatives last week to introduce a resolution proclaiming National Family Week, he was exercising a hoary congressional reflex. No one ever objects to such innocuous legislation. But Representative Ken Hechler of West Virginia had had enough: "If my good friend from California can tell me what will come from the pending resolution, I will be glad to know." When Edwards could not, and, undaunted, went on a minute later to ask the House to proclaim National High Blood Pressure Week, Hechler threw down the gauntlet. Vowing...
First, the bad news: according to the FBI, aggravated assaults rose by 6% across the nation last year. Now the good news: people are doing something about it-at least in New York City, where apathy has long since seemed a conditioned reflex...
What remained for him was the fact of painting, the reflex actions of being a painter - turning out canvases rather as a scalp, having no choice in the matter, grows hair. The subjects are only nominal, shallow receptacles for Picasso's prodigious instinct to survive. Their existence owes itself to fate, not to necessity. In this way, Picasso's last show is a depressing commentary on the idea that it is better to paint any thing than nothing; two years of silence would have rounded off that singular life better than these calamitous daubs...
What happens next between the White House and the press? Despite the Administration's seemingly conciliatory attitude, no love feast is in prospect. A long history of bitterness and distrust cannot be swept away quickly. Yet if the Administration can outgrow the anger reflex set off by even routine criticism and allow newsmen more access at the White House, a degree of mutual respect can develop...
...bigger its scale, the more "important" the picture: so a common American reflex goes. Indian art never shared it. The proof is India's most developed form of painting: the miniature. Commissioned by rajahs, Moguls and well-off merchants, bound in albums and luxuriously scrutinized, these tiny images were as important in the East -from the 16th century onward-as panel painting in the West. The spring exhibition at Manhattan's Asia House is "A Flower from Every Meadow," a selection of 86 Indian paintings ranging in date from about 1520 to 1900. Chosen and elegantly catalogued...