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Artist as Analyst. A spate of recent shows has established that contemporary portraits are two-way mirrors. Larry Rivers makes a collage portrait of Pop Artist Jim Dine on a metal storm window. Raise the bottom half, lower the top pane, and presto, a different Dine peers through. Pop Artist Andy Warhol tries to beat the penny-arcade snapshot by silk-screening the image many times over. Reginald Pollack found he had painted himself into a corner; his Self-Portrait (opposite page) shows his face surrounded by images of the girl he was then courting. She outnumbers...
...landmark decision implementing school desegregation; it was he who united a divided court by offering the compromise order, "with all deliberate speed." But the court was slowly shifting toward a more activist majority. Black's incorporation theory has yet to prevail, but his libertarian ideas have. In a spate of recent decisions, the court has increasingly "federalized" state criminal-law procedures and raised them to Bill of Rights standards. In 1962, the court also tackled reapportionment, over Frankfurter's last despairing dissent that it was "a massive repudiation of the experience of our whole past...
NOVEMBER--Webster's New International Dictionary spells Americans with a "u." Boston merchants bring out a spate of products honoring the late President and commemorating the impending Christmas season; hair-stylists offer the Kennedy Bob, tov manufacturers the Kennedy Teddy, service stations the Kennedy Jack and Kennedy Ethel, florists the Kennedy Rose, and even social welfare agencies get in the act; they send around a good guy with holiday cheer known as the Kennedy...
Plastic Patina. Some contemporary sculpture now jostling for Liebensraum in the living room cries less for the patina of age than for the quick eye jab of bright plastic paint. The result is a spate of new polychromists (see opposite page). Among them...
...Reds were hurting militarily. Perhaps, a little. At the same time, they probably did not want to take a chance of rallying support behind General Nguyen Khanh's regime by pressing major at tacks. At any rate, last week the Viet Cong cut loose again. In a spate of ambushes and fire fights-some within 15 miles of Saigon-they inflicted 403 casualties on government forces while suffering 266 themselves. The Communists captured 205 weapons, 24 radio transmitters, four field telephones and a typewriter. The government captured only 63 guns, largely because the Viet Cong have taken to tying...