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...lesser-known things in this show -- like the dense and acerbic paintings of Degas's friend Walter Richard Sickert, or Matthew Smith's responses to fauvism, or the work of the vorticists around 1914 (Wyndham Lewis, William Roberts, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska), or that of individuals like Stanley Spencer, David Bomberg, Jacob Epstein and Paul Nash, and so on through to the post-'60s paintings of men like Lucian Freud, Leon Kossoff, Frank Auerbach, R.B. Kitaj and Howard Hodgkin -- now strike us as not just a footnote to, but an essential part of, the visual culture of the past 80 years...
...living on the same hillside behind the Berkeley campus of the University of California. The most widely studied clusters are located in the western Pacific, particularly on the island of Guam, where ALS was once at least 50 times as common as in the continental U.S. Last year Peter Spencer, a neurotoxicologist at New York City's Albert Einstein College of Medicine, offered a solution to the mystery of the Guamanian cases when he traced them to a toxin found in cycad seeds, which the natives used to eat in times of famine. The toxin specifically affects nerve cells, says...
...While Spencer's discovery cannot directly explain the cases of the San Francisco 49ers or the Ohio schoolteachers, it does lend credence to the notion that something toxic in diet or environment can later trigger ALS. Indeed, over the years, a befuddling array of culprits has been suggested. They include infection with poliovirus, exposure to heavy metals, employment in the plastics industry and a history of traumatic injuries...
...Morning After is a smooth thriller. The scene in which she removes all incriminating fingerprints is a sure bet to go down in cinematic thriller history. But don't try to figure this baby out. One very slim clue is all you ever get, and as any aspiring Spencer knows, one ain't enough...
...President's old friends are willing to offer their advice. Stuart Spencer, who helped manage most of his campaigns, came from California and met privately with the Reagans last week. Michael Deaver, still under investigation for his lobbying activities, will have Christmas dinner with the First Family. There is talk of Paul Laxalt coming into the White House as a counselor and of Drew Lewis, the former Transportation Secretary, being tapped as chief of staff. In the past, Reagan has acted on difficult matters during his year-end holidays in California. And that is where he was heading this week...