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There is, however, a strand of painting that tends to miss out at both ends. It employs the human figure neither as a cooled-out sign linked to the imagery of mass media-like Katz, Tom Wesselmann, Andy Warhol, Robert Longo-nor as a generalized hieroglyph for "expressionist" feeling, as in de Kooning or the new German painters. Such painting wants to inspect and describe the body as a real object in the world, in all its resistances, its actualities, its peculiar landscapes of pit and pore and hair. It wants to move outward from that to see its social...
...with his cow and then produces just enough milk to fill a bottle. Or that the big social event of the year is a week-long series of sheep-dog trials, sheep-shearing contests, horse races and other bucolic competitions. Or that the only telephone line is a single strand on which the islanders not only eavesdrop but into which they even plug their radios for family entertainment. Legend has it that one vengeful curmudgeon attached the lone telephone wire to an electric power outlet and blew out the radios in the Falklands...
...would like the President to stick by his looser regulations while not tampering with student aid, it cannot have its way on both counts. Reagan's steps constitute a package that will restrict access to education in the twin names of federalism and meritocracy. For Harvard to oppose one strand of that package--the aid cuts--while supporting its looser scrutiny of universities, smacks of an opportunism of convenience, not a true commitment to equal access in education...
...interim came The Stories of John Cheever (1978), an elegant anthology of some of the best American short fiction written this century. It was justifiably praised and prized; it also became a bestseller, which collections of stories are not supposed to do. Having summed up one strand of his career, and facing a considerably enlarged circle of admirers, the author was left with some money, acclaim and a very hard act to follow...
Hair is still another source of information. A single strand can reveal a person's sex, race and certain other characteristics, and experts now have the ability to read far more from a sample. Says New York City Forensic Serologist Dr. Robert Shaler: "The hair is the garbage can of the human body. Everything you eat shows up there." Knowing that it grows about 1 mm a day, Shaler insists, "we can tell if you took aspirin yesterday and drank beer from an aluminum can a week ago." Until now, only Sherlock Holmes could deduce so much from...