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...while still carrying the sky or grass of the background--quote Magritte with an almost naive directness. True, Rosenquist could not be less interested in the literary and sexual side of surrealism, but the way disconnected images have always floated together in his work (the duck's head, tire tread and huge cropped face in Silver Skies, 1962; the immense rashers of bacon, their fat glistening among the stars, in Star Thief ) does not come only from America...
...basis of sex. In its most difficult advance into new territory, it ruled that women have a right to abortion. "This court has moved into areas the Warren Court never came near," says American University Law Professor Herman Schwartz. Yet when it moved, it was typically with a lumbering tread, tilting and veering with the shifts of the Justices at its center: Blackmun, Powell, Stevens, White and the late Potter Stewart. The Burger era may be remembered as one in which the centrists played the crucial role as swing votes in a court that was always swaying. But durable voting...
...destitute themselves. Along the way: concerts, frat parties, even a couple of weddings. Everyone wanted to get in on the act: a group of lifers at New Jersey State Prison in Rahway generously offered to line up across the Arizona desert--where less toughened participants feared to tread--but in the end their compassion only got them a spot in the handholding line across the prison yard...
...sheet metal, pink clapboard and silver tanks. One large white building is marked only by a tiny skull-and-crossbones label on the door. A few yards outside the site one afternoon in September, four men and a woman in boots and rubbery white suits used a huge tread-mounted pump to dig out a 10-ft. plug of earth for testing by the EPA. Their gas masks hung nearby, just above the spot where a dark little stream flows from the toxic site under the fence and away into the forest. For now, the locals who are worried...
Writing an operatic Broadway show was considered box-office poison 30 years ago, but Bernstein was up to the task. "Chief problem (is) to tread the fine line between opera and Broadway, between realism and poetry, ballet and 'just dancing,' " noted the composer in his log the year before it opened. In Candide (1956), he had attempted such a synthesis, but that show was crippled by a bitter book that was vulgarized in its later revisions. With West Side Story, however, Bernstein's command of popular idioms, his soaring lyric gifts and technical skills got free rein in a show...