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SCULPTURE SUrvival of the Wittiest Old artists rarely fade away. Instead, they keep producing, often with a wit and wisdom that grow stronger as the years pass by, despite the fact that their styles may seem passe. Two cases-in point are Rene Magritte and Max Ernst, remnants of the surrealist tide that swept Europe in the 1920s and 1930s. Ernst, at 76, is exhibiting his lat est sculptures at the lolas Gallery in Paris. Magritte, who died last August at 68, is being honored in his native Brussels with a retrospective that in cludes eight new sculptures designed before...
...flashlight, and Narrator Greene would ask plaintively: "How many bombs will it take to destroy the tens of thousands of people who move rivers with their hands?" Four peasant girls worked cheerfully at a waterway in clothes that seemed more for Sunday than for hard labor. At the fade, a genial "Uncle Ho" was seen touring among his admiring people...
...more accurate, since the connotation of quality in "best" is frequently undeserved. And there is doubt even as to quantity. A novel that sells 5,000 copies in one week may edge onto the weekly lists (usually compiled from bookstore reports), rub titles with yearlong, million-copy works and fade into the remainder stores after a few weeks...
...hall, the gendarmerie: the post office; a propaganda showroom; and some offices in the center of town: these are what the leadership has to work with. It isn't much, and where many people cannot read and no one has a choice of how to vote, it tends to fade out of most people's sight...
...14th discovered during 1967, one more than the previous yearly record of 13. In honor of the discoverers, the Smithsonian named it Ikeya-Seki 1967n (the 14th letter in the alphabet). The new Ikeya-Seki, the Smithsonian reported, had a brightness of only the ninth magnitude and would gradually fade away without becoming visible to the naked...