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...what an abstract artist at the height of his powers can do, one should go to the two large relief paintings by Frank Stella, with their flapping, exuberant forms slathered in paint, crayon and glitter: a splendid yawp of vitality. Beside such work, nearly all the abstract painting being done by artists of Stella's generation in the U.S. today looks ei ther timid or bored. Among younger artists, the abstract impulse tends to be more plainly decorative, less ambitious: witness the elaborately imbricated patterns of Joyce Kozloff s Mad Russian Blanket, or the high-keyed color swatches, like...
...distant voice booms a question. What kind of star could the Magi have followed? Was it a comet? An exploding meteorite? A stella nova? Or perhaps the conjunction in the winter sky of three luminous planets, Jupiter, Saturn and Mars? Every 800 years they come so close together that they might appear to be some giant star in the dusk. The voice hints at a possible answer to the mystery of what lured the Magi on by explaining that just such a meeting occurred in the sky over the Holy Land in the early spring of the year...
Like impassioned Astrophel chasing fair Stella, the Crimson stickmen pursued elusive victory, only to be turned away, like the unrequited lover, frustrated by a 2-1 loss to Brown...
...title seems to be the violation of the ritual of male bonding. Jerry worries very little about what he is doing to Judith, but he feels guilty as hell about what he is doing to Robert. In a Pinter play, woman, whether Ruth in The Homecoming or Stella in The Collection, is the catalyst of male discord...
MARRIED. Kate Jackson, 28, almond-eyed beauty of TV's adventure series Charlie's Angels; and Andrew Stevens, 23, budding star of the miniseries The Bastard and son of Actress Stella Stevens; both for the first time; on Martha's Vineyard, Mass...