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Through the two candidates, two Americas were trying to define themselves-a new America, struggling to be born, not necessarily promising, and an old America, its virtues not necessarily outworn. In this clash, Ronald Reagan...
...something woman-shaped every time he took brush in hand. Nevertheless, some of his cubist still lifes of 1911 run close to total abstraction. Objects were sunk in a twinkling field of vectors and shadows, solid lapping into transparency, things penetrating and turning away, leaving behind the merest signs for themselves-a letter or two, the bowl of a pipe, the sound hole of a guitar. This sense of multiple relationships was the core of cubism's modernity. It declared that all visual experience could be set forth as a shifting field that included the onlooker. It was painting...
...American celebrities, and something more. The movie star, it is clear without even a glance at the White House, has long since displaced the authentic hero in popular mythology. That hunger for knowledge of the real lives of such players is only a projection of the popular craving for movies themselves-a hunger not for true reality but only for more vicarious drama. -By Frank Trippett
...resume in three weeks. By and large Sadat has shown forbearance over Israel's annexation of East Jerusalem and flexibility over the delicate issue of West Bank water rights. Israel, for its part, has done everything it could to prevent the West Bank Arabs from genuinely governing themselves-a goal set by the Camp David accords...
...rate fixing by conferences of truckers. Carter has pledged to make environmental and safety regulation less costly and appointed an interagency council to comb out overlapping and contradictory rules. Unfortunately, the council is made up of the regulators themselves. Weidenbaum dismisses it as "the sinners gathering together to protect themselves-a sick joke...