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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Balthus's landscapes achieve this unremitting gravity. When he tried to carry a picture more on quotation than on sight, he ended up with enameled parodies of Claude like Landscape ofChamprovent, 1941-43. The more he cast himself as the last conduit of classical prototypes, the stiffer and more self-satisfied his work be came, a decline most evident after he moved to the Villa Medici in 1961. The measured suppleness of Balthus's paint surface now began to ossify, acquiring a thick, chalky, fresco-like appearance. It was meant to suggest the warmth and historical patina...
...respected Prague surgeon in his 30s and a compulsive womanizer. A business trip to the provinces brings him in contact with Tereza, who tends bar at a local hotel. It is love at first sight as far as she is concerned, and Tomás soon finds her ensconced in his Prague apartment, not just as a sexual drop-in but as someone who evidently plans to spend the rest of her nights there. To his amazement, the prospect pleases...
...much vaunted technological edge with the news that one of the five Super Etendard fighter-bombers it had bought from France had been damaged in a training flight. But for the moment the mass carnage appeared to subside. Still, the end of the fratricidal bloodletting was not in sight...
...insouciant hyperbole for which that publication is famous, the caption read "Taking Command." Inside, under a bold line reading "The 'Vicar' Takes Charge," the editors devoted several pages of snare-drum prose to an account of my life and a description of the Reagan foreign policy. ABC reported: "The sight of Alexander Haig taking command on the cover of TIME magazine was more than some of the President's aides could take, and since its publication there have been several obvious White House putdowns ... The problem seems to be that some of Mr. Reagan's closest advisers see Haig...
...true that they have no importance? My impression is that the campaign is being carried out spiritedly in cities and towns-at times within sight of the guerrillas and under fire-in the newspapers, on television, on walls and roadside trees, painted with party messages. The campaign is more stirring for the upper and middle classes, but the poor are also involved, and everyone participating is doing so with total freedom of speech, lashing out at one another without mercy and at times ferociously, pushing opposing programs from the center left to the extreme right. The fact that the extreme...