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...eternal search for order in the chaos around us. He feels impelled to wander in nature, building his own rational and controlled systems from the material around him. The pieces are man-made, yet not artificial. Long is sincerely interested in "the invisibility of art." The phrase is no scrap of artistic rhetoric; it is, rather, the heart of Long's mind. Long is an artist who is, he says, striving "just to reflect the natural state of things...
...more technical expertise in arms control than any of his predecessors may end up presiding over the demise not just of SALT II but of SALT I as well; because of the shelving of SALT II, pressures are building within both the Pentagon and the Soviet Defense Ministry to scrap or at least suspend the 1972 SALT I agreement. Carter's most spectacular achievement, the Camp David accords between Egypt and Israel, will be in grave jeopardy if there is no progress on Palestinian autonomy by the end of May. With no such progress in sight, Carter...
When Guilet retired in 1968, Pressler and Greenhouse turned to Cohen, who is now 57. The son of a Brooklyn scrap-metal dealer, Cohen may have had music instilled in him by a grandmother who took him to the Yiddish theater and hummed through all the performances. He studied with Ivan Galamian at Juilliard and refined his chamber music skills during ten years as second violinist of the Juilliard String Quartet...
...marketing challenge is formidable. With after-inflation sales growing only 1% to 2% a year, cereal companies scrap hard for supermarket shelf space and advertise loudly to catch consumer attention. People switch brands as often as ten times a year, and a new brand has only six months to establish itself before losing out to a more popular competitor. Only one-third of new brands survive...
Sometimes a very interesting synthesis emerges. Melvin Edwards' small sculptures, made of scrap iron forged and welded together, have a strongly totemic flavor. They allude to the once common practice of bricolage in West African tribal art, whereby mixed scraps of junk (nails, tin, cartridge cases and so forth) were incorporated into carved masks and figures. Junk sculpture has also been a Western convention for decades, but Edwards invests it with a rough, sinewy power, and his larger piece in the show, Homage to the Poet Léon Gontran Damas, 1978, has an almost majestic aura of open...