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...reviving angel, the art historian who has worked on him for a decade and who curated this fascinating show, should bear the name Wanda Corn. Moreover, the time is ripe. Once again, Americans are bemused by the deflation of their dreams. As it was in the '30s, the ethos that linked virtue to reward through honest toil is in deep trouble. Granted, the nostalgia for Wood's Midwest is now laced with self-evident ironies; one might say that it is a nostalgia not so much for a rural way of life as for a means of seeing...
...either innocence or rectitude: pink and doll-like when they are not harsh and sanctimonious. But the hills are like green breasts and buttocks, heaving perceptibly in his preferred light, that of a young spring morning. The plowshare slices into them suggestively. His best landscapes from the '30s, like Spring Turning, 1936, are votives to the original dea mater: man makes his brown tattoos on that vast pelt, but they will pass, and he and his horses are no more than fleas...
...worst, Wood was almost everything his critics said: vulgar, provincial, cute, mannered, and untruthful about the realities of country life. His paintings have much less documentary truth to offer about the Midwest in the '30s than Margaret Bourke-White's camera, but there are no photographs of Eden. This show allows us to see what Wood's assets were: mainly, the deep lyricism rising from his certainty that he had discovered a vein of imagery no other painter had mined...
When the curtain goes up on Once Upon a Time, Twyla Tharp's new dance for American Ballet Theater, Mikhail Baryshnikov is alone onstage. He is elegantly dressed in pleated, '30s-style trousers, the kind that Cary Grant or Katharine Hepburn used to wear in the movies. This attractive, provocative first glance recalls Tharp's triumphant Push Comes to Shove (1976); that ballet began with Baryshnikov's sidling out in a vaguely Slavic tunic and a sassy bowler hat. No doubt about it, Tharp understands this Russian-American firebird better than any other choreographer. She sees...
True enough, and dental records, when available, can do the same job. The various fingerprint programs are too new to have helped make any identifications yet. But in the '30s and '40s because of a Boy Scouts' crime-stopping campaign, there was some voluntary fingerprinting of youngsters and adults. The FBI, which has many of those earlier records, says the prints have helped identify victims of fires, airplane crashes and crimes. Few believe, however, that the present print wave will deter many kidnapers or help locate many missing children. Still, for frightened parents it satisfies the need...