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...some of the time. But he was also a painter with definite limitations, which began to show when, fairly late in his career, he started working on what one thinks of as an American scale. It is hard to bring to mind any of those big late canvases -- a blue field with a few dots on it and a squiggle or two -- that one would willingly swap for one of his fiercely impacted little canvases from the 1920s, like Petri dishes swarming with bizarre and emblematic microorganisms. Wisely, Lanchner has concentrated on the best years of Miro's career, from...
...spell of the last of these as it is to evade it. It is quintessential Miro -- a field divided roughly in half by a rambling horizon line, the earth featureless and red, the sky equally featureless (except for the ceremonious care with which the paint has been deposited) and blue. In the sky hangs a thing like a bladder, with a thin black line dangling to Earth: the ''flower.'' The ''rabbit,'' a sort of yellow Shmoo, regards it from below. There is nothing else. It ought to be ridiculous, but it is profoundly haunting, full of an indefinable melancholy provoked...
...anchor of Malone's 70-ft. sailboat had snagged an underwater power line. While divers spent two hours cutting the boat free, Smith and Malone had little choice but to continue trying to unsnarl the deal. ''We were lucky we weren't electrocuted,'' says Smith, who carries a blue poker chip in his pocket to remind him to pay attention to blue-chip opportunities. ''But it gave us a chance to keep negotiating and to come up with some good ideas.'' Those notions led to a breathtaking combination that calls for Philadelphia- based Bell Atlantic to acquire Englewood, Colorado-based...
...Giselle she is like Anna Magnani when she goes mad. In Act II she is like a cloud.'' SYLVIE GUILLEM. Until she was eleven and fell in love with ''le spectacle,'' or the show-biz side of ballet, this lyrical athlete was a whiz-kid gymnast in the blue-collar Paris suburb of Le Blanc-Mesnil. In 1980 Balanchine picked her out of a line of 15-year-olds when he called on the Paris Opera Ballet School. Three years later, Rudolf Nureyev, who had taken over as the company's director, did the same, casting...
...manufacturing these days. The hard fact is that the nation is coping with one of the most wrenching economic transitions since the turn of the century. Despite the Reagan Administration's upbeat talk of continuing economic growth and prosperity, workers in traditional American industries insist on singing the shutdown blues, sometimes in whole choirs. Four years after the official end of the last U.S. recession, American factories ranging from textile plants in North Carolina to machine-tool plants in Ohio are still closing their doors. In many cases, older installations have been replaced by hundreds of smaller, more competitive plants...