Word: seene
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week two outside directors of Atlanta's National Bank of Georgia, which was once headed by Lance, issued a 131-page accounting snowing that the bank had loaned the Carters almost $7 million. But the directors reported: "We have seen no evidence that the proceeds of these loans were, at least to the knowledge of anyone at N.B.G., used outside the Carter peanut business...
...superb acting by Susan Sarandon and Eric Robert does more than just enhance the well-directed lead roles the two of them play--it makes the movie work. Last seen in pretty Baby with sidekick Shields, Sarandon is even better here; she has more to work with. She can be funny, serious, wealthy and wide-eyed, as well as downtrodden, while Shields, though visually pleasing...
Latest on the hit parade of new food items is "tofu." You have undoubtedly seen it and wondered what it was on the salad bar. Tofu bears a striking resemblance to white bouillon cubes; in actuality, said Raven, it is ancient Oriental dish, high in protein, made from soybean curd...
Some artists so possess their landscape that the real place, visited for the first time, can look like a replica of their work. France is full of examples-the banks of the Seine seen as a Monet, the imprint of Cézanne on the red earth and twisted roots of the Midi, the Matisses latent in every curlicued balcony in Nice. In the same way, Cornwall is Ben Nicholson's territory. Insistently, and often without depicting landscape at all, his paintings have altered several generations of responses to that green ledge of land, shelved with granite and glittering...
...rolling, antique contours of moorland and coast, recur in hundreds of drawings and dozens of still-life and land scape paintings. Nicholson's favorite motif was that of the cubist Juan Gris: a view of objects on a table, vases, mugs, jugs, bowls, with a fragment of landscape seen through an open window behind, the two worlds - exterior and interior - compressed into a single overlapping image. Nothing is gratuitous, nothing fudged. The sharp pencil line - Blake's "hard and wirey line of rectitude" - engraves the surface with a kind of moral certainty. A work like June...