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Still, a certain freshness and life manage to shine through more conventional mannerisms in these 53 works. The subjects include animals, native rituals, and portraits. Exhibited in the museum's North American Indian gallery, the styles echo the design of everyday artifacts displayed nearby. All the painting, I think, are of outdoor subjects, and in general they rely on clearly defined outlines and shapes of flat color...
...became a millionaire with diverse interests in banking, real estate and restaurants in California and horse racing, dog racing and legalized bookmaking in Mexico. One of his enterprises was the erection of a twelve-story office building on the very same street in San Diego where he used to shine the shoes of C. Arnholt Smith, a fund-raising friend of Richard Nixon and Alessio's mentor and business associate. Alessio, named "Mr. San Diego" of 1964 by a local civic group, appreciates having friends in high places. In 1968, after years of contributing to Democratic campaigns, Alessio switched...
Strength and Spirit. Sometimes the results smite the eye and exalt the spirit. Majesty and strength shine in St. John's Abbey and University of Collegeville, Minn. The project's bell tower, a mighty raised slab of raw concrete, is among the best pieces of sculptural architecture this side of Le Corbusier's Ronchamp church. Manhattan's Whitney Museum, with upper gallery floors expressed in three cantilevers that extend further and further out from the building, has heft, urbanity and presence. But sometimes the effect is of too much strength, as in a muscle-bound cantilevered...
...slate grey indifference intensifies her rejection from New York's burgeoning society--a society that has pinned a metal badge "Licensed Peddlar 2622" at her collar. Few photographers have achieved as powerful a moral statement as Strand has in the photo; the peddler's House has the time lousy shine as her one eye; a license is hardly as answer to her problems...
Even the elements seemed to line up with Moakley Long before returns began to trickle in communications director Timmy O'Neill predicted that the clear, sunny day would shine on the side of the Independent challenger. "Hicks does well on dreary, rainy days," he said. "On bad days the good people don't get their share of the vote...