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...notice it, but it's heartbreaking," said Cavett after surveying the rubble of the historic St. Charles Hotel and the debris of the French Market renovation. "Don't they understand they're destroying an international landmark? It's like putting arms back on the Venus de Milo," he grumbled, "like fixing up the Colosseum in Rome and staging live gladiator events, or like filling in the Grand Canyon and putting up a patio and serving dinosaur burgers...
This excitement doesn't come from witty titles like Dean-Askin's Bottcellis parody. The Dearth of Venus of Ta Kuang Chang's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Mouna L a. Nor does it show up in Carlo G. Brogna's paating of a toilet with an accompanying roll of toiled paper tacked to the wall. Julia Allard's say of three mouths-obviously an assignment from a drawing class-is less striking than any of these but also more hosest. Because it's good--she's taken a simple exercise and brought life...
Close Look. The four-hour flyby was an unexpected bonus at the end of an already successful $100 million mission. Three months after its launch in November 1973, Mariner 10 passed Venus and took the first closeup pictures of the cloud-shrouded planet. Then slowed by Venusian gravity, it plunged toward the sun, approaching Mercury in March and again in September 1974. On those flybys, Mariner got the first close look at the planet and detected a weak magnetic field that some scientists thought might be caused by Mercury's interaction with the solar wind, a stream of charged...
...Rubens (like Henri IV Conferring the Regency on Marie de' Medici) are much to the fore in this show, was able in maturity to go back to his great prototype and produce such majestically sensual works as Turkish Women Bathing (1854), an outdoor seraglio, a blend of Venus garden and fete champetre. In the event, it was Rubens who saved classical mythology for the romantics by rescuing it from its scholarly imbrications. By the same token, he rescued historical allegory by giving it the unique straightforwardness, the solidity and dazzle that his followers could only aspire to imitate. Perhaps...
...manned space program may be suffering from hard times, but the space agency's unmanned exploration of the solar system is continuing to report stunning successes. In the past few years, robot spacecraft have surveyed the planet Mars in exquisite detail, sent back the first closeup pictures of Venus and Mercury, and penetrated the powerful radiation belts surrounding the sun's largest satellite, Jupiter. Now, after sweeping even closer to Jupiter than did its predecessor, Pioneer 10, last December, Pioneer 11 is beginning the long trip to its next target: Saturn...