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...rich ecclesiastical red-are neatly tuned by Dine's drawing, which gives exactly the right definition to the edge of a sleeve, the correct visual weight to the shadow in a fold. It is beaux-arts drawing applied with a kind of gentle irony to the ma trix of abstract-expressionist style. Dine's older paintings of robes in the '60s were done with acrylic and house paint; they had the "industrial" look common to a lot of Pop art - clean, flat, unresonant. But, says he, "the robes glow now," thanks to the traditional oil paint...
After 20 minutes of cutting and brightening the speech, Kissinger opened his briefcase and took out three folders. When Kissinger came to a document marked TOP SECRET SENSITIVE EXCLUSIVELY EYES ONLY CONTAINS CODEWORD, Rossi clicked away at 1/30 sec., f/5.6 with TriX rated 1200 ASA in his 35-mm. Canon equipped with 600-mm. lens. What the camera recorded was a report on diplomatic relations between Paris and Hanoi based on information from "an established CIA source with excellent access" in the French Foreign Ministry. According to the CIA source, the French felt "deceived by Hanoi's assurances that...
...Photographs like that of Mount Williamson, with its tumbled granitic boulders and slanting cathedral illumination in the sky-as if God had accepted Adams as his art director-have been instrumental in fixing the idea of "wilderness" for two generations of Americans. Probably half the millions of frames of TriX and Polaroid that tourists expose in Yosemite each season are homages, conscious or not, to Adams-sentiment imitating art in the presence of nature. Just as the traveling painters of the past century like Albert Bierstadt and Thomas Moran imposed a particular vision of the West on our ancestors, Adams...
...there still is hope if some of you have some Trix up your sleeve. The CRIMSON Spring Competition begins next week...
With the embattled wedding finally over and Irene formally ruled out of the line of succession by Parliament, attention turned to Beatrix, who at 26 is already surer of herself than Juliana ever was. Particularly close to her father, "Trix" shares his spontaneous enjoyment of life. Once, when christening a new ship, she drenched the assembled dignitaries with champagne, and her laughter at the sight was heard throughout the country on TV. Her only apparent major problem is getting married. The government would dearly like to break the habit of finding royal consorts among the Protestant German aristocracy. But suitable...