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...father of asymmetrical design, and his progeny are legion. Bastard Mondrians, with their printed grids of black lines and their rectangles of primary blue, red and yellow, turned up on every flat surface that industry made-from tea towels to Courrèges dresses, from cigarette packs to apartment façades...
...world airline industry, bound to gether in the 108-member International Air Transport Association, has been setting air fares for the past 26 years with only an occasional break in its façade of comfortable unanimity. All that will likely end this week. West Germany's Lufthansa has been the sole holdout against a new scale of North Atlantic air fares, and IATA has given the "Route of the Red Baron" until Sept. 1 to go along. If, as expected, Lufthansa refuses to reconsider, IATA members will be without a common rate package...
...country was concerned. Once, the Bengalis were proud to be long to Pakistan (an Urdu word meaning "land of the pure"). Like the Moslems from the West, they had been resentful of the dominance of the more numerous Hindus in India before partition. In 1940, Pakistan's founding fa ther, Mohammed AH Jinnah, called for a separate Islamic state. India hoped to prevent the split, but in self-determination elections in 1947, five predominantly Moslem provinces, including East Bengal, voted to break away. The result was a geographical curiosity and, as it sadly proved, a political absurdity...
Despite the comic-opera façade, however, Tubman made some substantial contributions to Africa's oldest independent black state. His rule was characterized by both stability and a medicum of physical progress. By means of education and arm-twisting, Tubman did all he could to wipe out the differences between native tribesmen and the elitist Americo-Liberians (descendants of Liberia's freed-slave founders...
This impulse lay behind his obsessive working in series, catching the alteration of light from hour to hour on the same haystack, the same façade. But it does not explain the oddly abstract effect of such paintings. Nor does it account for the curious fact that Monet often painted from memory in a manner identical to his paintings from nature. The Houses of Parliament, London, with its diagonally surging, frayed green silhouette and glitter of thick silvery light, was produced at his house in France in 1905. For Monet's paintings become abstract to the extent that...