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...traditions of the School of Paris. The French painter he most admired, the surrealist André Masson, was set against the pre-eminently French virtues of lucidity, calm and mésure. An extraordinary number of strands are braided and involved in Pollock's work, from Indian sand painting to the theory of Jungian archetypes, from Zen calligraphy to El Greco, from American jazz and Western landscape to the doctrines of various occult religions...
...presidential election, which is scheduled for March 7. The army and the government have agreed on their candidate: conservative Brigadier General Anibál Guevara, a former Defense Minister. His main opponents are Alejandro Maldonado, a lawyer and former Guatemalan Ambassador to the United Nations, and Mario Sandóval Alarcón, an outspoken right-winger who sports a pearl-handled revolver and has threatened that if elected his government would kill 1,000 "Communists" a week...
...crowd that had formed around the sand pit for the finals became hushed as Johnson bowed his head and began the approach of his first jump. As soon as he left the ground it was obvious that this was no ordinary leap. Before the length was announced the crowd burst into applause, and once the official announced the 24'7" distance, the applause became frenetic. Hartman had two more chances to top it, but neither jump came close, so Johnson took the event, besting his own personal record by over a foot, and missing the University record by inches...
...water-holding frogs of the Australian desert. Their active life is condensed to brief times when there is water in those arid wastes. After a rainstorm, they gorge themselves on insects, mate, then watch their eggs quickly develop into tadpoles. Finally, bloated with water, they burrow into the sand and wait for the next storm, which may not come for many months. In one of the series' most fascinating sequences, Attenborough digs up a piece of the desert and drops it into a container of water. The dirt turns to mud, then dissolves, and a single Cyclorana emerges-looking...
...breaks windows or swings from the chandeliers. There are no Lawrence of Arabia types to match the well-oiled revelers who made headlines among the sand dunes of Long Island after Fernanda Wetherill's legendary bash in 1963. Absent too is the spectacle of several years ago, when one Dallas daddy hired a three-ring circus, complete with elephants, for his daughter's party. "They're all playing it pretty conservative this year," explains Marge Waters, a close observer of the Dallas social scene...