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...simply part of his work's ecology. Besides, the '50s were the last time a public could be provoked by art. (Since then, an overload of images has rendered art's audience blase.) This seems to have confronted Rauschenberg with a crisis after his silk-screen paintings won the Venice Biennale in 1964-a dead zucchino now, but the Big Apple then...
...they are printed on floating veils of silk, chiffon, muslin and taffeta, one positioned over another...
Back to Basics. Television news audiences and the readers of most general publications get little serious economic analysis. There are exceptions. Leonard Silk of the New York Times is one of the few journalists whom academics respect as an intellectual in the field. The Times's Soma Golden and the Washington Post's Hobart Rowen have both done consistently fine work. Peter Milius of the Post recently explained with clarity the relationship between inflation, wage changes, productivity and unit labor costs-rather basic stuff, but necessary to educate a painfully ignorant public...
...worst effects of the quake centered on a 70-mile belt of the Karakoram Highway, which was built with the aid of the Chinese along the old silk route linking Tibet and Kashmir. "When the quake started at dusk, I was saying my prayers with five other policemen in the police-station mosque," recalled Constable Mian Zar of the village of Pattan. "Suddenly, the whole building started shaking and the roof collapsed. Three of my colleagues were killed...
...Attles-Barry leadership has paid off. The Warriors' new center, Clifford Ray, acquired in the deal for Thurmond, has been an outstanding defensive player and rebounder. Barry's teammate at forward is Rookie Keith ("Silk") Wilkes, a U.C.L.A. product who has retained all of his smooth college shooting skills. At the guard spots, Golden State has two solid ball handdlers and playmakers in Butch Beard and Charles Johnson...