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...crew of Challenger, it was a peculiarly ambiguous mission, which combined show-stopping successes with exasperating glitches. Mission Specialist Kathryn Sullivan, 33, became the first American woman to walk in space, but her celestial stroll was encumbered with an unscheduled, mundane chore: helping fellow Space Walker and Specialist David Leetsma, 35, fasten a balky antenna atop the shuttle...
Neither a smoker nor a drinker, Duarte has had scant time for his favorite sport of basketball. For exercise, he often takes a stroll after lunch around the presidential compound accompanied by his omnipresent bodyguards. "Nappo," as friends call him, dabbles at landscape painting, but he seeks relaxation mainly in talking politics with cronies or with Inés, his wife of 35 years. Sometimes he seeks out one of his six grown children for political advice: Alejandro, 33, is mayor of San Salvador, a job the elder Duarte held for six years...
...graphic achievements of a Degas or a Matisse could rise. Such amateur experience added up to a general recognition that to draw, to reconstitute a motif as a code of lines and tonal patches, is to think, and that such thought forms the root of all visual literacy. A stroll in SoHo today, by contrast, will furnish any number of artists who can barely trace, let alone draw...
Kingston Falls, U.S.A., the setting for Gremlins, is itself a dreamscape confected from congenial old slices of apple-pie Americana. Norman Rockwell might have painted the town's Main Street and the faces of the folks who stroll down it on this peaceful Christmas Eve. Frank Capra, Hollywood's master of sweet-and-sour sentimentality, could smile at the plight of Billy Peltzer (Zach Galligan), the all-American boy who supports his family with a job at the Kingston Falls Bank and wins respect by standing up to the filthy-rich Mrs. Deagle (Polly Holliday). Preston Sturges...
...strengths of the old MOMA was its feeling of intimacy. One could just stroll in off the street and look at some great art in a small room. There was none of the architectural muscle flexing that is conventionally meant to prepare its audience for a Major Experience. MOMA's staff, especially its director of painting and sculpture, William Rubin, put a very high priority on preserving this feeling in the new structure. It was, Rubin argues, a key element in the intentions of modernism itself. Relatively few "classical" modernist paintings-Picasso's Guernica being an obvious exception...