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...pictorial ineloquence, marked the start of this change, and the pink stony torsos of Two Nudes, 1906, delineate the period's end. In between lay some magnificent paintings, such as the Seated Female Nude with Crossed Legs, 1906, whose solidities of thigh, trunk and breasts anticipate the swollen torsos of Picasso's "classical" women 15 years later. It was one more element in the predictions, recapitulations and variations of theme that composed the tissue of Picasso's imagination...
...metamorphic sculptures of Marie-Thérèse from the early '30s, involutes of swollen dreaming bronze in which cheek is conflated with buttock, mouth with vagina, have a wonderful tenderness and power as plastic surfaces. Even the plumpness of the bronze cast provides the suggestion of skin, while the slightly fuzzy texture of the metal further equivocates, not with the look, but with the feel of flesh. In some ways, the shapes of Marie-Thérèse, smooth and closed, are like the totemic bone forms of Picasso's grotesque anatomies of the '30s, the projects for immense figure-based...
...durability of Spain's new democratic institutions. Much of the disappointment and blame has been directed against Suárez's cautious leadership, and a senior government official concedes: "We have lost momentum." The once thriving Spanish economy has slowed painfully. Unemployment, already over 10%, has been swollen by hundreds of thousands of migrant workers forced home by industrial cutbacks elsewhere on the Continent. Fully half a million of the jobless are young first-job seekers, a group that is prone to political exploitation. Though inflation has been halved in the past two years to about 15%, investments...
...residents fled San Jacinto when the flood-swollen river that runs through town burst its levees. Said Jane Hoff of the town officials' warning to leave: "They came through with a fire truck and a loudspeaker. I was scared to death." In Palm Springs, levees burst along the Palm Canyon Wash and 1,000 people were sent to evacuation centers. Governor Jerry Brown sent 100 National Guardsmen to prevent looting...
...Pass. Today Peshawar, which is only 34 miles from the Afghan border, has become the principal bivouac and nerve center for Afghan rebels who have crossed the border to escape the invading Soviet troops. Last week, after a visit to the city-whose population of 300,000 has been swollen by thousands of refugees-TIME Correspondent David DeVoss filed this report: There are at least 60 different rebel factions fighting in Afghanistan. Nearly a dozen of them have headquarters in a reeking slum on the edge of Peshawar's old Afghan colony in the shadow of the old Mogul...