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PRIMITIVE ARTISTS OF YUGOSLAVIA by Oto Bihalji-Merin. 200 pages. McGraw-Hill. $16.95. The impact of these native artists, most of them peasants, is almost unbearably and perhaps unwittingly sad. The skies glower. A hired man slumps by his ax, in utter fatigue or despair. In a village cafe, the dancers do not smile. An old woman nods by candlelight, her face pale as death. A gypsy wedding scene seethes with movement, but the movement is angry, and the arm of the old man in the foreground seems to be raised in menace, his mouth seems to bellow wrath. Although...
...Beny have paid lovely tribute to those glorious ghosts. Beny's 172 photographs, twelve in color, make a perfect setting for Dame Rose's text. In these pages the wayfarer irresistibly shares the author's "intoxication, at once so heady and so devout," at "the stunning impact of world history on its amazed heirs...
...lightweight bulletproof vest and seat protector is being issued to U.S. helicopter pilots. Made of a classified combination of synthetic fibers and metal, weighing half as much as steel, the vest can absorb the full impact of a rifle or pistol bullet, shredding the bullet as it pierces the outer layer of the plating...
...institutional impact is destined to become stronger in the market. Mutual-fund assets have grown by an average 14% annually in recent years, and more and more labor settlements call for increased pension benefits. This tide of new money can have a major effect on the market, often helping to stabilize stock prices. Says Robert Driscoll, president of the Manhattan-based Affiliated Fund: "When the market goes up, we sell-and when the market goes down we buy." As the past few weeks have illustrated, the institutions' very size can make them an unsettling force, even when they...
...their assets now bulge above $600 billion, nearly as much as the U.S.'s gross national product; they currently account for close to one-third of the $60 billion-a-year trading on the New York Stock Exchange. Clearly their decisions to buy or sell have a powerful impact on which way the market goes. Lately these large investors have been holding back their money from the market, thus helping to grease the market's fall...