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...exhibition gives plenty of scope to the artists of the Brucke and Blaue Reiter groups (there is a particularly fine sequence of early Kandinskys); but it is strong on artists who belonged to neither, such as Wilhelm Lehmbruck, whose war-induced suicide in 1919 at the age of 38 truncated what might have been one of the great sculptural oeuvres of the 20th century. The best coup is to have reunited the two completed parts of Grosz's blistering anti-establishment triptych of 1926, Eclipse of the Sun and Pillars of Society. The latter, with its beer-hall vision...
...comet could not be explained solely by gravity. He proposed that "ether," an invisible theoretical substance that at the time was believed to pervade space, exerted drag on the nucleus, slowing it down. After observing flares streaming from Comet Halley's surface in 1836, another German astronomer, Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel, conceived a more plausible concept, the fountain theory. Bessel proposed that a comet was a loose clump of particles. He suggested the flares were fountains of these motes erupting from its nucleus and that they acted as a brake. Bessel's work was largely ignored at the time...
...being made into a TV movie for PBS in New York City. The film, being produced by former Princeton students of Bellow's, has delighted the author, and last week he visited the set to make a cameo appearance walking down a hotel corridor past his hapless protagonist, Tommy Wilhelm, played by Robin Williams. The Nobel laureate has no ambitions about an Emmy. "I don't expect to add anything unless something of my absurdity comes through," says Bellow the actor. Bellow the writer was not tempted by the medium either. "I was approached to write the script," he says...
...Wilhelm says the advent of clerical, service, and government employee unions is a result of a recent production shift from the manufacturing to the service sector. "The traditional backbone of union membership has shifted," he says. "There's substantially less jobs in manufacturing today than there was 25 years...
...League universities are contradictory places. Although they stand for liberty and enlightenment, they are actually very undemocratic places," says Wilhelm...