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Grand Displacement. "It seems to me," he reflected, "that It Is more nat ural to make subject X coincide with a painting that one gets to know rather than to make painting X coincide with a known subject." Composition, in short, gives us our sense of reality. In this way, Gris was the most formal of all the cub ists. Picasso's formality was modified by his enormous appetite, Braque's by his aristocratic fervor, Leger's by his blunt populism, but Gris was obsessed by shape and only by shape...
...welcome tattoo of accompaniment, na ture also wreaked a special havoc on the country for the second year running. Total damage for natural disasters in 1973 exceeded $1.2 billion. Federal funds ex pended to assist local governments and citizens in the 3 1 states plagued with nat ural disasters came to an estimated $750 million, and 75,000 families received direct relief. It was scant consolation that the year before, 48 major disasters cost $3.5 billion in damages, making disaster relief expenditures for the past two years more than the amount expended for the preceding decade...
...have begun to take remedial action. Most recently they announced that Russia, like the U.S. and Great Britain, will set up an environmental-protection service to police air and water pollution throughout the nation. Beyond that, the government will spend over $1 billion to clean up the Volga and Ural drainage basins, $840 million for purifying facilities in 420 factories, and $360 million for sewage-treatment plants in 15 cities. At Irkutsk, new water-treatment plants have already made the Angara River, Mayor N.F. Salatsky says, "as clear as a woman's tears." It will be many years, however...
...level of the Caspian Sea has dropped 81 ft. since 1929, mainly because dams and irrigation projects along the Volga and Ural rivers divert incoming water. As a result, Russia's caviar output has decreased; one-third of the sturgeons' spawning grounds are high and dry. Meanwhile, most municipalities lack adequate sewage treatment plants, carbon monoxide chokes the plateau towns of Armenia, and smog shrouds the metallurgical centers of Magnitogorsk, Alma-Ata and Chelyabinsk...
Even though the trial was deliberately held far away in the Ural Mountains, details leaked out. It was learned that Amalric, frail and hollow-cheeked, had pleaded not guilty and declared the trial illegal in a one-hour statement to the court. Amalric's friends fear he may not survive his harsh sentence, for he suffers from heart disease. His wife Giselle, in a statement given to Western correspondents, said: "I know that my husband is strong in spirit and that neither the indictment nor the sentence can break him spiritually. But I also know how weak his health...