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...structural part of the object. After working in England (1935-46), Gabo moved to the U. S. and in 1952 became an American citizen. He created a dazzling, airy body of work, fragile and coolly elegant. Twisting, swooping arcs made of glass or plastic, for example, were strung with wires like harps. His work greatly influenced later generations of artists, particularly kinetic and Pop sculptors...
...drive the British out of Palestine. In 1946 Begin's men blew up the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, which was then British government headquarters. Ninety people?Jewish and Arab employees, in addition to British officials?were killed. The Irgun also tortured two British soldiers to death, then strung up their booby-trapped bodies in an orange grove...
...know how to get it. He was awkward with women--most of the time he did not know what to say. But whenever he decided it was time to speak and make himself noticed, he always blurted out some inane remark that set women on edge. His high-strung nature made him good at whipping through economics problem sets, but his inability to have a simple good time with people did not endear him to many. His laughter was forced and his jumpiness scared people off. He was especially self-concious around women, so he was even more jumpy around...
Sondheim's pearls are strung together so as to link his guiding themes. He turns obsessively to the tensions and tenacity of marriage, its tidal lure and its shipwreck debris. Almost at the moment that his songs brighten with the delights of love, they darken with the pain of love's transience and loss. Sondheim's inner beat is the tempo of Manhattan and Broadway. His scores are minidramas. His people are night people, thirsting for fame and applause and always vulnerable to the morning-after of the defeated quest. Some of Sondheim's songs...
...ultimately breeds more scarcity. What begins in fear must end in fear." Indeed. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. But wait. Journal proclaims itself part of the alternative lifestyles movement, but you wonder whether they're not just copping-out. They look to the future like Tim Leary, more strung out today on pseudo-scientific concepts of change than on chemical psyche-changers, glossing over the uglier and more immediate problems of western life by liberally prophesying that...