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...blowers in the Pentagon are continuing to sound alarms about the wasteful way past funds have been spent. Last fall a leaked report, prepared by Air Force auditors at Oklahoma's Tinker Air Force Base, showed astounding increases in the price of aircraft engine parts made by Pratt & Whitney: a turbine air seal for an F-111 fighter-bomber, for example, soared from $16 to $3,033.82 in one year. These findings touched off a broader study by the Pentagon's inspector general's office. Last week a leak of the resulting draft concluded that Air Force...
...Whitney's Cafe (37 JFK St.): The only place in the Square to get a Rheingold on tap, if that is a plus. As high as the odds are that you'll go to the Kong at least once the odds are ever larger that you will never enter Whitney's. The night bartender, Joe, laments the fact that more students don't visit what many believe to be Harvard Square's only real working class bar He attributes the absence of "youngsters," somewhat mysteriously to the Vietnam...
Grant Wood at the Whitney: afresh look at an American icon...
...worst fate an artist can suffer, late in life, is being famous for a single work. The worst after death is oblivion. Grant Wood (1881-1942), the American regionalist painter whose retrospective of 84 drawings, prints and paintings opened last week at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, suffered both. There was a time when millions of Americans who would never have looked inside a museum knew, from reproduction, one painting of Wood's, American Gothic: he with the pitchfork and faded bibbed overalls, she of the dowdy mien and disapproving eye, in front...
...tribal law of the art world is that nothing is immune to revival. In March, a drawing by Wood flabbergasted everyone by selling for $143,000, and now the Whitney show (which travels over the next year to museums in Minneapolis, Chicago and San Francisco) will undoubtedly create even loopier bids for the few works in Wood's small mature oeuvre that are not already in museums. It seems felicitous that Grant Wood's reviving angel, the art historian who has worked on him for a decade and who curated this fascinating show, should bear the name Wanda...