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...when Stephanie marries Paul and settles into an American country wifehood that the teasing promise of her intricate and highly individual childhood declines toward case history, and static, predictable domestic woe. Stephanie's cries rise to heaven like those of De Sade's Justine, a girl, one recollects, with far more justification for complaint. Paul, Stephanie grants, is a splendid lover, a fine husband, a kind man, a devoted father-as handsome, she reports, as Jimmy Stewart. But he doesn't want to live in the city. And he doesn't talk to Stephanie enough...
Harvey Quaytman, paintings and drawings, through Nov. 6. Charcoal and acrylic on board can be trendy mixed-media creations, but Quatyman's remain intellectual works. His simple geometric forms seem to move the color over the surface; the result is harmonious, one grasps it all at once--yet not static. Like a frozen waterfall, these paintings hold arrested motion that is just waiting to escape...
...this sense of mutated organic form, emphasized by Calder's reluctance to smooth away the traces of making the sculpture (bolts always show, surfaces are always hand-painted rather than sprayed), that gives such life to his stabiles-Calderese for static sculptures. They are by turns as graceful as plants, as energetic in profile as a jumping tarpon: Calder's sense of edge is unfailing. Partly because they are assembled from sheet steel and do not dislodge great lumps of space, they also have a light, affable air to them. The larger, recent mobiles are rather less exhilarating...
...personal views on subjects ranging from religion to lust. Yet many of Carter's strong supporters still regard him as an;enigma, a kind of populist Hamlet whose cross-purposes and mixed signals have so jammed the nation's sen sory network that little more than static has emerged at the receiving end. A line from a Kris Kristofferson song might well have been written about Carter's multifaceted personality: "He's a walking contradiction/ Partly truth and partly fiction...
...passed by Congress in its present form, the bill would squelch several annoying bits of static on the phone companies' line. One of them: the so-called specialized common carriers-non-Bell communications companies that grew out of a 1959 FCC decision opening a new spectrum of microwave channels to private business. Currently, there are three such carriers in operation-the biggest is MCI Telecommunications Corp., based in Washington, D.C.-that run microwave transmission facilities for Government and business clients in competition with AT&T. The bill, by ruling out "wasteful or unnecessary duplication of communications lines," would apparently...