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...lyrically involved with the Italian past, Twombly seldom quotes directly from its dead artists. An exception is Leonardo, whose temperament -- combining a fastidious eye for minute incident with a pessimistic, even apocalyptic imagination -- evidently intrigues him.The most successful trace is in Leda and the Swan, 1962, which enlarges the turbid vortices of the Deluge studies into a frenzy of scribbles and feathers, sexual and comic at the same time...
...struck, for the piece in question was striking, frappant even. God and Man at Yale, God and Nude at the Daily! I thought of Carlyle. Shall we sartus, let alone resartus, the sartor? Shall we, while we're about it, clothe the Yale Daily scriptor? Through the turbid sophomoricism of what Mr. Snotbottom is doubtless pleased to call "prose," I seemed to detect an affirmative reply...
...your writer serious about U2's social statements? Can he really hear the "moral imperatives" above the turbid screaming and screeching? Great musicians have made political statements with their music, which was not stylized through the gimmickry of electronics...
...sense of the world's insecurity; it ends as a reassuring convention, directing one's gaze to the abstract qualities of the painting. Certainly, no one could say Baselitz lacks pictorial flair. When he is in full cry, slathering the surface with that thick and turbid pigment, now layered in grit and now applied with a kind of skidding creaminess, he achieves a fluency of rhetoric that does much to animate the more standardized conventions of his work. His sculpture is another matter. Nothing, not even the passionate exhortations of the Greens, could make you feel sorrier...
...Jesus, 250 Lisu tribesmen in Thailand's mountainous Chiang Rai province will assemble this week for three days of prayer and movies about Christ. In Sarawak, a Malaysian province on the island of Borneo, Dyak tribesmen one generation removed from head-hunting will gather in longhouses along the turbid Rajang River for caroling. Similar scenes will take place in impoverished villages in Guatemala, Brazil, Botswana and India. In many cases, the celebrations will be organized and guided by Western missionaries. Says Timothy