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...work ever since. At one time she built up her paintings almost entirely of small squares. Later the squares opened into lines that could be manipulated into an infinite number of arrangements. Vieira da Silva begins a work with no image in mind: the painting starts out as a "skeleton"-a few lines or points or cells-and then leads the artist on. "I always have a line to add or a void to fill," she says...
Occasionally, Mauldin's wallops land a little below the belt - as in his figure of Charles de Gaulle sitting by the bed of a skeleton labeled "Colonialism" and observing cheerfully: "While there's life there's hope." A liberal by instinct, Mauldin refused to be hog-tied by the hampering allegiances that can destroy a cartoonist's punch. "I have lots of acquaintances and few friends," he says. Democrat Mauldin was all for John Kennedy during the campaign, but lost little time after the election in searching for cracks in the idol. He poked...
Around the Skeleton. An interested spectator at the Civil War balloon experiments was a young German officer, Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin. After he retired from the Kaiser's army, in 1891, Zeppelin dedicated his life to perfecting giant rigid dirigibles-built around a metal skeleton-that would retain their shape and could be guided. About the same time, a wealthy Brazilian, Alberto Santos-Dumont, developed the nonrigid dirigible and pleased girls by taking them on flights around Paris...
...ancient, canopied bed lies corpselike old Lady MacAskival. Birds screech outside the window, ghosts roam the castle's corridors, haunted eyes gleam in the dark. In a pit beneath the trap door in the cellar lies a mysteriously deformed skeleton. "This Gothick tale," says Author Russell Kirk, is "in unblushing line of direct descent from The Castle of Otranto." He is wrong. Historian Kirk (The Conservative Mind) has expertly stuffed his book with all the claptrappings of the Gothic romance, but what he has actually achieved is a political morality tale. For all the apparent ectoplasm floating about...
...Summer News is managed by a skeleton crew of editors from the Harvard CRIMSON, the term-time University daily...