Word: barnet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Will Barnet has been making prints for nearly 50 years; his reputation as a formal virtuoso and innovator is now secure...
...Will Barnet: 27 Master Prints (Abrams; 63 pages; $12.50) offers a sampling of work done over the past decade and provides fresh evidence of the artist's versatility. His lithographs employ a broad palette of muted, pastel colors, while the serigraphs are built up from large blocks of flat, brilliant hues. For subjects, Barnet favors women and cats in stylized arrangements leaning toward abstraction. Woman Reading, perhaps his best-known work, achieves an almost hieroglyphic serenity...
...party numbers many prominent personalities and well-connected organizers. Among its 100 sponsors are Barry Commoner, Studs Terkel, the best-selling writer. Richard Barnet, author of Global Reach and a founder of the Institute for Policy Studies, a leftwing think tank, Steel Workers insurgent Ed Sadlowski and the heads of the Gray Panthers, the National Public Interest Research Group, the Black Economic Research Center and the Institute for Local Self-Reliance. The party also has sponsors with channels to potential financial supporters. The include David Hunter, executive director of the Stern Fund, Adam Hochschild, publisher of Mother Jones, Archibald Gillies...
...world has grown more dangerous in the past few months. Tension over oil and the unrelenting growth of the Soviet arsenal have sent shock waves into the American system. "Nuclear war is becoming more probable," laments Richard Barnet of the Institute for Policy Studies. Yes, confesses one of President Carter's principal strategic planners, there is "a change in attitude" in the White House. There is the growing realization that the U.S. must sustain and demonstrate its power, even be prepared...
...Barnet followed his own rules to the letter. He arrived early every morning -not to get any work done, but to peruse the desks of everyone else in the office, thus keeping one step ahead of his superiors. He would gleefully fill me in on his findings the moment I arrived, the first wave in a day-long deluge of chatter that made it impossible for either of us to get any work done. My life became a mind-numbing swamp of monologues about who got what promotion, why it was undeserved, which employees hated each other and why. "That...