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What detains the eye in a Welliver is, in part, his assertion of "abstract" readings within a very forthright and apparently realistic transcription of raw nature. Typically, his spaces are shallow and entangled. You are on the forest floor, in a cavern of green and gray, gazing at an almost impenetrable screen of slender tree-trunks, fallen branches, brush, lichens and rocks. There is no horizon line to offer visual release: just more forest, dappled and blotched with light. The surface is not oppressively congested-for at his best, in paintings like Late Light, 1978, or Shadow, 1977, Welliver...
...financiers and spoils for the strategists, and inflicted casualties among innocent bystanders, including workers at the companies involved and shareholders around the country. Though Bendix had assembled a cash hoard of $575 million over the past two years by selling off some of its less profitable businesses, mainly forest products, Chairman William Agee still had to arrange credit lines for another $1 billion from a consortium of banks to make his takeover bid. Cash-poor Martin Marietta was forced to borrow $892.5 million so that it could buy Bendix stock as a defensive measure. At a current borrowing rate...
...does not have to come from California's San Fernando Valley, though indeed the subspecies Puella americana vallensis (PAV) was first identified in that beige outreach of Los Angeles. She can equally well be from some honker place like Lake Forest, Ill., or Longeyeland. She got to be called a Valley Girl because of the hot five-minute single record by that name in which Frank Zappa and his maximum brilliant 15-year-old daughter Moon Unit lampooned the San Fernando species and its tribal habits. Valley Girls are by no means mere pubescent versions of the California Girl...
Their chance comes in the Ardennes during mid-December 1944. The unit is ordered to establish an observation post in a deserted château deep in the forest. It is as if Hansel and Gretel had been illustrated by Bill Mauldin. Tired, cold and filthy, the band enters a zone of ominous enchantment. From behind trees and bushes, German soldiers call out greetings, offer whisky and good wishes for a sound sleep. They throw snowballs, not grenades; they return lost equipment and finally leave the perplexed G.I.s a Christmas tree decorated with candles, apples and potatoes...
...stage for such a move was set nearly two years ago when Bendix Chairman William Agee began a major reorientation of the company's focus, shifting it away from its traditional lines of business and toward high technology. Agee sold off the firm's nonferrous metals, forest products and energy exploration divisions for a total of $800 million and began looking for a company to acquire with that enormous nest egg. Martin Marietta was considered a perfect takeover target. Says E.F. Hutton Analyst Frank Drob: "Martin Marietta is a very attractive purchase. The important point is that...