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...inspection. If Velazquez had ever chosen to paint water dribbling from a spout, he might have come up with the sort of brilliant fiction about unstable, passing appearances that Freud achieved in Two Japanese Wrestlers by a Sink, 1983-87. (The "Japanese wrestlers" of the title are not real sumo contenders, but fragmentary pictures of them pinned to the wall.) There are amazing feats of sheer visual dissection in this show, such as the view from the studio window, Wasteground with Houses, Paddington, 1970-72, or Two Plants, 1977-80, in which it seems that every leaf of hundreds...
...slip of the plates is not constant along the fault. The southern San Andreas bends like a river and splits into multiple branches. Because of this contortion, the Pacific and North American plates cannot slip in a straightforward way but must strain against each other like two sumo wrestlers. The battle of the plates has created numerous smaller fault lines along the San Andreas, giving the region the look of a smashed windshield. Over the millenniums, the Mojave shear zone to the east may offer a path of less resistance to the giant plates and replace the San Andreas...
EXPLAINING to the Japanese newspaper Nihon Keizai Shimbun why he had not been promoted to grand champion, American-born sumo wrestler Konishiki said, "Strictly speaking, this is racial discrimination." By week's end, however, the 576-lb. idol backed down and said his remarks had been "misinterpreted...
...that U.S.-bashing demonstrations, a regular and often violent feature of student life in Tokyo during the 1960s, are practically unknown these days. And while marginal politicians, assorted TV-news anchors and intellectuals are taking noisy potshots at the U.S., no important cultural figures in Japan -- such as, say, sumo superstar Takahanada or baseball's Hiromitsu Ochiai -- have been heard uttering such sentiments. Asks Ishikawa: "Everyone is saying, 'Apparently, there is a growing dislike of America,' but where is it? Who's doing the disliking...
...Sumo Wrestler" by Laura Evans exemplifies this timidity. The artist successfully uses color. There is a bold contrast of orange, blue, and green, well suited to the subject matter. The weighty aggressiveness of a Sumo wrestler is further underlined by the artist's blocky style. But the painting technique leaves a lot to be desired, with one thin washy layer and no variation in strokes or thickness. Because of an unsophisticated use of oil, the painting appears to be a sketch for a future, developed rendition...