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The U.S. and Russia have formed a secret pact to divide the world between them. Seraphina, whose mother had been sold into slavery, is enraged. Her dark eyes flashing, she checks out her weaponry: a deadly energy ray that springs from her fingertips, a mirror that reflects secrets from any...
To celebrate his eightieth year, he has had seven one-man shows. The latest, with 68 oils and 64 watercolors, drawings and graphics, opened last week in New York's Marlborough-Gerson Gallery. "My paintings are really a personal diary of my life," he says. This year, for instance...
The trouble began when Intra Bank, the country's largest, ran out of cash to meet a run of withdrawals and closed its doors-perhaps forever. Among Lebanese, shock spread as it might in the U.S. if a dozen giant banks and industries collapsed together. Intra held 38% of...
Meantime, Sculptor Frazier was using vacuum cleaners to inflate his 50-ft.-tall "soft skyscraper," attended by scores of shoving children. "The fun is in the struggle," exhorted Art Critic Harold Rosenberg as the plastic building listed flaccidly to and fro and finally stood erect. With that, Frazier let it...
On the Shelf. Not surprisingly, Billy's non-burial recently made Variety's front page: BILLY ROSE ESTATE HUNG-UP . . . LEGENDS CONTINUE TO FLOWER IN DEATH. In California, Sister Polly responded with an emotional letter to Variety in which she blamed everything on the executors. Columnist Leonard Lyons...