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BARBARA BAXLEY Weston, Conn...
...since their Inge days, says that Sandy responds more to animals than to humans. "She figures that humans can take care of themselves. It's the helpless that she responds to." Her response approaches aeluromania. Between her Hudson-view apartment in Manhattan and her handsome country home near Weston, Conn., Sandy now has five dogs and 21 cats. She just can't resist a stray. She has been heard to comment, while emptying yet another box of Kitty Litter: "I bet you wouldn't find Ava Gardner doing this...
...very gregarious. "I don't go on the road much any more," says Gerry. "The marriage is working. Of course, you have to like cats." The cats pretty well preclude inviting people in, though Sandy's recently divorced mother presides over most of the menagerie at the Weston retreat. Sandy doesn't like gadding about, anyway. Still a keen reader, she rips through nearly a book a day, is currently working on English and Russian history...
Adams, as a founder of "Group f/64" with Edward Weston, became an advocate and practitioner of "straight" photography. Nevertheless, his pictures at times achieve the character of abstract paintings. The enlarged wood-grains of "Detail of Old Wooden Cross' are the strokes of the painter's brush. The suppression of the background of "Rain Forest Kileuea" into middle grays sets off the few black tree trunks in the foreground and gives the jungle a surrealistic quality reminiscent of the paintings of Rousseau...
...Abzug of Great Neck, N.Y. (South Africa); Jonathan Boorstin (Cambridge); Stephen L. Griffith of Washington. D.C. (Oxford); Nicholas R. Jones of Gates Mills, Ohio (University of London); D. Gordon Mosser Jr. of Minneapolis, Minn. (Oxford); Philip D. Ray of Raleigh, N.C. (University of London); Christopher St. John of Weston (London School of African and Oriental Studies); and Steven Varga-Golovesenko of Huntington Station, N.Y. (University of London...