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...satirical revue called Queen of the Bathtub, which included a skit in which Mrs. Meir muses to herself about how she is always right. The production, which closed after 20 performances in Tel Aviv because of picketing by veterans' groups, heckling and government pressure, offered another sketch that had Defense Minister Moshe Dayan telling soldiers: "I am a man of my word. If I promise you blood and tears, you shall have blood and tears." Dayan, who saw the play, called it "toilet humor" and added: "The Egyptians would have loved...
...seeking the kind of free mental space in which to observe, imagine, write, only to find that a woman is never as free as a man to bum across country or through Europe. Ever try to sit down in a park with a book or a sketch pad for more than five minutes without some character feeling it his obligation to make an attempt at picking you up? Of course you can get rid of him but your peace of mind is shattered for that...
Piene's art hooks into a worldwide concern for ecology, for redesigning man's physical consciousness. But he considers his show in Pittsburgh the merest sketch for future projects. These include a mile-long arch of hydrogen-filled balloon flown over the sea, to be exploded at dusk by an electric spark; vast towers of flame; and a scheme to incorporate the sun into art by turning it black, red or blue with optical "veils" hung between it and the earth. What will the ecologists make of that...
...city church in Bayreuth, and between 1616 and 1630 he completed 24 oils that are now in the Coburg art collection. He painted a portrait of himself as a rifleman, and also one of the duke. But the hunting book was his most important work. He very likely sketched from life, since he often portrays himself sitting in a corner of the picture, sketch pad in hand...
...book is a complex interlacing of myth and mystery, parable and paradox, and straight description of an unusual war. At its center is a brief sketch of a now completed circle of Jewish history -from the Roman razing of the great Temple in Jerusalem and the diaspora, through the aftermath of Christ's crucifixion and Hitler's Final Solution, to the recapture of the Wailing Wall on the Temple grounds by Israeli soldiers in 1967. Outwardly, it is a cycle from defeat to victory. Inwardly, it represents the record of a profound moral dilemma. For the ancient Temple...