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...tense college campus. A mob of angry, jeering students provoking a line of nervous armed peace officers. Rumors of snipers. The crash of rocks and bottles. And suddenly some signal triggering an atavistic convulsion brought on an unexpected eruption of gunfire. Finally, the youthful bodies, bleeding on the smooth campus lawn. The scene this time was Mississippi's predominantly black Jackson State College...
Galleries first came to SoHo two years ago when Paula Cooper opened her cosy aerie up three flights of creaky, splintery stairs. More recent arrivals include Max Hutchinson, a peripatetic Australian; Reese Palley, an Atlantic City Boardwalk porcelain salesman; and smooth-talking, Brooklyn-born Ivan Karp. Uptown dealer Richard Feigen maintains a downtown branch in SoHo, and two more uptown power houses-Castelli and Emmerich-recently announced plans to open outlets in the neighborhood...
...made by a giant computer. If so. The Forbin Project is the machine's apologia pro vita sua, a razzle-dazzle science fiction yarn about a computer takeover. It was made -at least according to the screen credits -by humans, but the film's rigorous plotting, its smooth suspense and meticulously calculated style seem strictly and triumphantly machine-made...
...label of Minimal Art has latched onto Stella's work. He makes enormous paintings-with surfaces as smooth as a car. Flat color without a shadow is neatly placed within ruled or compassed lines so that no trace of the artist's hand remains. He could command a computer to execute it. But a startling combination of geometrical forms makes his pictures look different from the other Minimal Artists...
...horses approached the crowd on their way to the starting gate and broke into a canter. Overhead, a plane was advertising for the dog races-"Change Your Luck; Raynham Opens Tonite." The track was smooth and brown and neatly furrowed. I looked at the big board. The crowd was betting the favorite. The odds were 7-5 on Great Mystery...