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REFLECTIONS UPON A SINKING SHIP, by Gore Vidal. A collection of perceptively sardonic essays about the Kennedys, Tarzan, Susan Sontag, pornography, the 29th Republican Convention, and other aspects of what Vidal sees as the declining West...
...France," a well-traveled patient told a doctor in Newcastle upon Tyne, "when a horse develops clots in its legs, it is treated with a diet of garlic and onions." The doctor was a Burma-born heart-disease researcher, I. Sudhakaran Menon, and the remark suggested to him a novel line of attack on the problem of clot formation in human blood vessels...
...called an heiress of it. She might also claim to be something of a pioneer. In 1952, when she was only 23, she developed her "stain technique" as an extension of Jackson Pollock's method of skeining swirls of glossy Duco enamel onto a canvas spread upon the floor. Helen thinned her paint with turpentine and poured it onto the unprimed canvas, so that the paint sank in. The marks of the pouring or brush disappeared, canvas and color became one and the same. The result was so remarkable that when Morris Louis and Kenneth Noland came up from...
Greenberg encouraged Helen in her habit of tearing up canvases that were too easy or familiar. His critical mark is best symbolized today not in the myriad lilting forms and colors that she puts upon her canvas, but in the ones she leaves out. Her work incorporates empty spaces that are often more forceful and outspoken than the painted ones. In The Human Edge, for example, the real Frankenthaler is to be found-not in the weighty banner forms that hang down from the top, but in the horizontal rectangle of white that lies beneath and behind them.The whole picture...
REFLECTIONS UPON A SINKING SHIP by Gore Vidal. 255 pages. Little, Brown...