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Died. Maurits Cornelis Escher, 73, Dutch artist known for his surrealistic woodcuts and lithographs; in Hilversum, The Netherlands. Escher worked in almost complete obscurity for 30 years, until, in the early 1950s, his vivid sense of fantasy and unusual uses of perspective won recognition in the U.S. His creations over half a century, about 270 works, now appear in museums on both sides of the Atlantic...
Turning Green. By the mid-1960s, it had become clear that not all of the waste material was sinking as planned. Local residents complained that the crystalline waters were turning a vivid green. Algae flourished. Fishermen reported a considerable drop in catches on windy days when the taconite clouded the water...
...vivid A thmtic account of life in China, Journalist Ross Terrill suggested that the foundation of its revolution rests on what he refers to as a "Blessed Trinity": the peasant, the worker and the soldier. A descriptive summary of their routine lives says much about what China is like today...
...worthy American films. The first evokes a time when a man could win on style alone--the American Dream at its most basic. A tin-horn gambler and a golden-haired whore play out a laconic male, smart-bitch female romance in the 1890's Northwest. The portrayal is vivid, the material trite. Little Murders is a child's garden of negations. It plays on TV family stereotypes until their insular evils are revealed--and set in the context of a stupidly monied America. It's a rare, original, American comedy, but director Alan Arkin slings more mud with Jules...
...insist on seeing "the new Neil Simon" or nothing is to enlist in New York's legion of the theatrically self-deprived. In reality, Broadway is a pageant with something to beguile every eye. The latest treat is Vivat! Vivat Regina!, a vivid tapestry of passion, blood, majesty and death...