Word: yaacov
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...movements" that agitated the surface of art in the 1960s, Op art had the briefest life. What became of all those eye-teasing patterns, those blips and dazzles and other paraphernalia of quick-shot visual illusion? Gone, mostly: either degenerating into unctuously chic decor-as with European artists like Yaacov Agam or, in his late work, Victor Vasarely-or vanishing into that limbo of taste where obsolete experiments go. Today's supergraphics wrap tomorrow's garbage...
...Eban the Minister of Information folio, a lesser Cabinet job that Eban has always considered superfluous. Former Finance Minister Pinhas Sapir, 65-the kingmaker of the Labor Party-flatly refused to stay hi his post. According to Rabin's foes, Sapir even cautioned his chosen successor, Banking Executive Yaacov Levinson, not to accept the Finance portfolio because Sapir believes that the new government will not survive for more than two months. Nor has departing Golda Meir gone out of her way to bolster Rabin's cause. Since he was neither a dyed-in-the-wool Mapai...
...Died. Yaacov Herzog, 50, Israeli diplomat and foreign affairs adviser; of a stroke; in Jerusalem. An ordained rabbi and graduate lawyer, Herzog was an intelligence expert in the underground before Israel became independent. Afterward he quietly served a succession of prime ministers. He was David Ben-Gurion's closest counselor during the 1956 Suez-Sinai campaign, and following the war used his cordial relationship with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles to help resolve U.S.-Israeli differences. Herzog was director-general of the Premier's office for Levi Eshkol and Golda Meir, service that earned him the sobriquet...
...transformed from pre-Bastille to post-Kubrick. Gone from the palace (built in 1718) were the murky frescoes, the gilt-edged mirrors, the priceless Louis XV and Louis XVI furniture. The anteroom where guests are greeted is now a blast of color and light, designed by Israeli Op Artist Yaacov Agam and dominated by his wall-size "kinetic" murals...
Other immigrants are at first disenchanted by life around them. "They envision the Israeli soldier as a superman," says Yaacov Yannai, a Sovietologist born in Riga, "and they are terribly disturbed when they see that some soldiers are undisciplined and sloppy. Dirt in the street bothers them as does the brusque, discourteous manner of some of our people. Their puritanism is dealt a blow when they go to a Tel Aviv movie and see naked women on the screen." Many complain about the relatively high price of tickets for operas, concerts and plays (rarely more than $3 for first-rate...