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...potato fields, a jumble of sun-flushed legs on the sand. With a handful of minor exceptions, De Kooning's paint work manages to avoid the rather flaccid, glutinous and mushy quality it assumed in the middle '60s; his gestures occupy a curious middle ground between bravura swipe and pastelly softness, and the pigment oozes suggestively, a matrix of wavering depths. The sum effect is of sensual chaos, but modified with knowing flicks and placements: sprawl as form, luscious and-despite all the turbulence on top -lazily seductive. They are among the most accessible canvases De Kooning...
Aside from its publicity value, McGovern's airing of his financial laundry was meant to be a backhanded swipe at Front-Runner Ed Muskie. In a statement now much publicized by McGovern's forces, Muskie this January admitted he would "be out of the race" if he unveiled the identity of his fat cats. The reason, of course, is that many large contributors simply do not want their names publicized, and would contribute no more if identified. But the McGovern camp does not discourage the inference that Muskie relies on tainted dollars to support his campaign...
Occasionally, Shapiro's unremitting emphasis on sexuality falls flat, blunting once or twice an otherwise deft satirical job. The sexual overtones of a naked couple's encounter with a fascist Smokey the Bear defuse what could have been a more powerful swipe at the authoritarianism embodied even in the symbol of our national parks...
...bullying his audiences, that he wants to terrify the virtuous, make the thugs feel good, and give everyone else a charge. For, if you force yourself to look at that bursting foot, or Amy's bloodied face, or the battle shots of a fagged-out David taking one final swipe with a poker--cold sweat is the appropriate response...
...Radio Network took a swipe yesterday at television coverage of pro football, accusing the networks of presenting pro football "as a lavish form of entertainment" and of lacking "the journalistic enterprise, independence, and objectivity that marks the coverage of other events of such national scope and interest...