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...beau et le bien. Quite properly, Alberto Giacometti's wiry bronze isolates are given a room to themselves, and it is the most august room in the show. Yet there are surprises-notably the suite of "hostages" by Jean Fautrier, human presences rendered down into a thick anonymous protein of paint, which were exhibited in Paris just after the Liberation (with a catalogue preface by André Malraux) and are still among the most striking images of pathos and mute, intractable survival that the war evoked from the West. The monochromes of Yves Klein, a curiously underrated compound...
...market shelves, the endless Amway and Tupperware America. It may be fatuous to envision new splendors of design in a nation going to condo and cluster. But interesting, occasionally bizarre ideas are turning up. In the Midwest some builders are digging underground houses with skylights and atriums and a thick dome of earth on top that eliminates abrupt temperature changes from season to season. Friends, even strangers, are getting together to buy a house and share it. Under some arrangements, two couples may buy a condominium with two master bedrooms and two master baths and share the kitchen and living...
...little time to vacillate, however, for my turn in line had come. I slumped into a deep bucket seat, pulled the thick harness over my head, and pressed it to my chest so hard that I could barely breathe. I don't remember the ride, but I left it a bit numb...
...Soviet-made antitank grenade, fired from a rocket launcher, had smashed into the trunk, splintering the inch-thick, shatterproof rear window. Then several rounds of small-arms fire were heard. Said Kroesen later: "When I saw that all the legs and arms were in the right places, and the driver found the car would start, we took...
...with the Red Sox one game back in the loss column, life goes on at Fenway Park. But the tension isn't thick, the players aren't scowling, the fans aren't as loyal. Even the Go Sox hats are going slower, and the voice of the vendor has a hollow sound...