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...particular, and perhaps best of all, there are the two rooms by Judy Pfaffat the Hirshhorn and the Whitney. If there is any central metaphor to Pfaffs maniacally strident and wonderfully energetic work, it is immersion. Colonies of shapes-spiky, blobby, twisting, knotted, tangled-sprout upward from the floor or hang in clusters from the ceiling. They proliferate like brain coral, elkhorn, lacy underwater fans; the wall beyond them dissolves into patches and drifts of submarine color. It is the octopus' garden, and walking through it one seems to float. Such an image could become excruciatingly kitschy (one cutout...
...Western view that Soviet intervention is inevitable was rooted in a cold-blooded diagnosis of the Polish disease. Not only is it critical, it is chronic, degenerative and infectious. With nasty irony, Poland is proving that Marx was right: political crisis does sprout from economic difficulty. And in Poland's case, the economy is on the brink of collapse...
...energy program, and thus of the nation's future. The boom is sweeping far beyond the coalfields and oilfields. Construction cranes pierce the skies over Denver, Salt Lake City, Phoenix, Albuquerque, Boise, cities that already bristle with high-rises undreamed of ten years ago. Modernistic electronics plants sprout alongside gleaming shopping malls and clusters of ranch houses. The new pioneers keep streaming in-young parents in station wagons, roustabouts in pickup trucks, elderly couples in trailers-to work and live among these mountains and deserts that Daniel Webster scorned. Says Colorado Governor Richard Lamm: "There is no hyperbole that...
...cash to anyone or anything that will help uphold decency, religion and high profits. The anti-feminists, formerly too demure to march and lobby, now scream shrilly about co-ed bathrooms; the pro-life contingent bombs clinics and pesters legislators. Liberals seem to be slowly emerging from the alfalfa-sprout doldrums of the decade past--a Vigurie-style operation was set up this year by some old '60s radicals--but they have a ways to go before the marchers on Washington and the floods of postcards resume...
They look like something out of The Empire Strikes Back. But the futuristic-appearing contraptions that are beginning to sprout atop remote and windy mountain ridges, and even right in the middle of congested suburban developments, are really nothing more than updated versions of the first reported windmill, which was built to capture the power of Persian breezes in the 7th century...