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Because of, never despite, such affinities, Matisse's originality is always clear. It lay in his unique gift of pure color. He possessed to the nth degree the power of making a flat disk of yellow or a slice of viridian turn into a lemon or a leaf, bathed in sunlit air. Sixty years have done little to blunt the impact of the flat-out chromatic intensity of some Matisses from the 1920s, like Anemones in an Earthenware Vase, 1924. The structure of the painting is as lucid as a theorem, with its pattern of rectangular hangings, panels and tabletop...
Most of the skaters are housed at Eliot House, cutting down on the show's expenses and allowing performers to meet students and experience a slice of Harvard life...
...Industrialist Armand Hammer, 88. Irked by the common confusion, the high-profile chairman of Occidental Petroleum reportedly tried a few years ago to buy the label from its owner, Church & Dwight of Princeton, N.J. But now Hammer is at least a minority Arm & Hammer proprietor, after Occidental gained a slice of ownership in Church & Dwight by a new joint venture. Under the scheme, Church & Dwight received a 50% share in a potassium-carbonate plant owned by Occidental in Muscle Shoals, Ala. In exchange, Hammer's company acquired 5% of Church & Dwight's common stock, worth about $13.3 million, plus...
...suffered from a double whammy. The three networks' share of the prime-time viewing market has dropped from 90% of the country's viewers in 1980 to 76% today, and analysts expect that percentage to drop to as low as 70% in 1990. Within the shrinking network slice of prime-time audience, the CBS portion has narrowed, from 29% in 1982-83 to 26% last year. NBC's helping, on the other hand, has grown from 24% to 27% on the strength of such winners as The Cosby Show and Family Ties. This year only NBC was able to raise...
...most details of the new tax law, the big question is how will it all work out on April 15. In consultation with the accounting firm of Coopers & Lybrand, TIME has created a board game to help those who file joint returns arrive at an approximation of the slice the Federal Government will be taking from their annual income...