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...REYBEROLLE-Marlborough-Gerson, 41 East 57th. The U.S. gets its first good look at a French painter who serves up frogs, couples and countrysides. As if performing a fertility rite in the paint itself, Reyberolle stirs around a mess of goopy green to convey the spume and spawn of swamp life and, with a calculated confusion of limbs, portrays lovers tumbling in a field, successfully suggests the mystery and fecundity of nature. Thirty oils. Through June...
...begins its course 4,150 miles from the sea. Its longest leg, called the White Nile, pours out of Lake Victoria through Uganda's Owen Falls Dam, drops swiftly to the Sudan, where it snarls itself in the tangled vegetation of the Sudd-50,000 sq. mi. of swamp, amidst whose 14-ft.-papyrus thickets and convoluted blue ambatch flowers the river loses half its water in evaporation and drainage. The Blue Nile dashes headlong down the rain-wreathed mountains from Lake Tana, smoking through unnavigable gorges and scouring tons of rich earth from the Ethiopian highlands. Where...
Born. To Ed Begley, 63, cinemactor who played a swamp-grass politician in Tennessee Williams' Sweet Bird of Youth, and Helen Jordan, 38, his third wife: a daughter; in Dublin...
Prifty's second, a 300-foot air-mail delivery to left, might have been a long out. John Dockery got his hands on the wind-blown ball, but lost control when he ran into the swamp basin at the edge of the outfield...
...There is much speculation on the quintessential nature of Southernness. "Lonesomeness" is one explanation. "The lie that is the truth of the self" is another more portentous reflection. Whatever it is, those who feel it most are inclined to go off and hole up with muskrat skinners in the swamp drink a jug of likker and just weep into the warm...