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...other main approach to "nature" -landscape painting being hopelessly old hat-was via anthropology: artists playing Robinson Crusoe or Man Friday under an umbrella of structuralist jargon. Here, the palm for silliness must go to a Dutchman named Krijn Geizen, who built a reed hut and set a tuna to smoke on a rack outside it. This piece of mock primitivism was intended to say something about survival, in homage to the fishermen of the Po delta; but since the tuna was not caught by the artist but bought in the Venice fishmarket, the project looked vicarious, like Marie Antoinette...
Just War. "Some Catholics have argued that given the advent of nuclear weapons, there can no longer be a just war, and that pacifism can be the only Christian response. It is easy to argue such a position when the American nuclear umbrella keeps one out of a communist concentration camp...
...Orthodox Jewish immigrant umbrella maker, Freeman grew up in Chattanooga and still remembers when the city was ravaged by floods before TVA dams tamed the Tennessee River. Says he: "If you were a member of the generation that saw the light bulb replace a kerosene lantern and benefited from the blessing of electric pumps that drew the water from the well, so you didn't have to carry water from the well, then you really appreciated what the TVA had accomplished." Recalls Freeman: "TVA and religion were the two biggest things in my life...
...message had to be delivered in other ways. The seacoast people joined with about a dozen other New England groups that had been fighting nuclear power in their own communities (New England has seven licensed reactors, one under construction, and eight more proposed) and formed an umbrella organization, the Clamshell Alliance. The name honors the first people to oppose the Seabrook plant, the clam diggers of Seabrook, in order to highlight the fact that the alliance gains its power from local working-class concerns about nuclear power's effect on the quality of life and the ability to earn...
DOMINATED BY INTELLECTUALS, the Parti Quebecois is an umbrella party which unites under its independentist banner people of both leftist and rightist persuasions. In its first cabinet, for instance, the P.Q. government had both a labor minister who fought for the highest minimum wage on the continent and for pro-union labor legislation, and a finance minister known for his conservatism. Until last year, the party was pledged to withdraw from NATO, but at its last convention, it reversed its policy so as not to antagonize...