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...lithe, balding artist nosedives at a canvas spread on the studio floor. His brush uncurls a reptilian ripple of paint that twines and insinuates itself into a snakepit of color. "All I try to do is let out the monsters inside me," he says, "the monsters we all are." Shades of Jackson Pollock? No, it is Belgian-born Artist Pierre Alechinsky speaking, and at 37 he is already a latter-day saint of action painting...
...only uses it as a means of liberating his vision. He explains: "I don't think there's any point to endless searches for new techniques, like musicians looking for new sonorities. It is still possible to get touching music from the piano. With oil and brush, you can tell a story. You don't need 40 tons of cement. Give a man a piece of paper and a pencil, and you'll see what he can produce with means so simple and humble." What Alechinsky does is to turn man's half-tormented, half...
Warren ruled nonetheless that in granting presidential power in "explosive" foreign relations, "Congress must of necessity paint with a brush broader than it customarily wields in domestic areas." The stage is now set for a problem the court left open: Government prosecution of 150 U.S."students who illegally visited Cuba in 1963 and 1964. If convicted, they may face five years' imprisonment and $5,000 fines...
...usurps the Polish throne, leads the whole menagerie. He bellows like a bull, whines like a hyena and eats like a pig. Mere Ubu (Virginia Morrs) comes on with a Bela Lugosi accent, smelling roses, swearing at her husband and slaying a mock army with a toilet brush. Sidney Goldfarb plays a Brooklyn Hamlet out to avenge his slain father with a plastic baseball bat. Everybody bellows and jumps around...
...treasures against landed wealth. Rich plumbers dispossess the gentry on art-museum boards. Such propositions tickle Baird, an art insider, who deserted a gilt-framed career (New York's Frick Collection, Washington's National Gallery of Art) in favor of novel writing. Baird wields a deft brush to capture art's comic possibilities, but he wastes his brush strokes on a canvas of postage-stamp size...