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Canadian Ambassador Allan Gotlieb and his wife Sondra often wine and dine Washington's most glittering names. One figure they would rather not meet, however, is Whitney North Seymour Jr., the independent counsel attempting to prosecute former Reagan Deputy Chief of Staff Michael Deaver for perjury. Last week Seymour tried to subpoena the Gotliebs to testify about Deaver's involvement in Canadian affairs while in the White House...
Whenever there is discussion about the rivalry between the European Airbus and its U.S. counterparts ((ECONOMY & BUSINESS, May 11)), the same old arguments about unfair competition crop up. However, you did not mention that the different versions of the Airbus are fitted with U.S. turbofans built by Pratt & Whitney and General Electric. The situation for the U.S. aircraft industry is therefore not as bad as you describe...
...always overestimated. The 1985 Biennial was laden with East Village, post-graffiti kitsch by Kenny Scharf and others -- gaudy ephemerids who, instead of going on to further heights of success as a result of their inclusion, have shriveled in the hot wind of fashion that blew them into the Whitney in the first place. Undoubtedly, 1985 marked the nadir of the Biennial's reputation; it was the worst in memory...
...version is in some ways among the best. One contemplated its arrival with glumness and rancor, and one was wrong. It is still a show with marked ideological prejudices. Clearly, the Whitney curators resist realist painting, and their promotion of media-based conceptual imagery over more directly pictorial forms of intelligence verges on intellectual snobbery (for example, Richard Prince's boringly generic reflections on photo reproduction, or Bruce Nauman's neon pieces, or Barbara Kruger's snootily virtuous samplers bearing such commonplaces as I SHOP THEREFORE I AM). But no one could accuse it of the air-headedness that marked...
After hitting its nadir in 1985, the Whitney Biennial is back: less airheaded, more conservative, offering some distinct pleasures...