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...from scheduled performances as narrator of Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex. She brought a civil rights suit pleading that "people's livelihoods should not depend upon their holding 'correct' political views." The U.S. Supreme Court last January rejected her bid for a punitive-damages award, although it let stand a judgment of $39,500 to cover lost employment -- an amount far smaller than the legal fees she spent fighting for her principles...
...want to know what painting is or can be, look at Velazquez. This has been the judgment of artists for the past 300 years. It is as though Velazquez has never been seen as anything but the summit of excellence in art, embodying a degree of intelligence, pictorial skill and lucidity of realization that defy not only imitation but, in some final way, analysis itself. He is to realism what Piero della Francesca is to abstraction. First Edouard Manet and then a whole succession of French painters from the 19th century into the 20th (not to mention English and American...
Last week the case took another tack as a New York appeals court overturned that judgment and restored the Cup to the U.S. The decision was applauded in San Diego. But in New Zealand Michael Fay, head of the challenging syndicate, hooted, "A disgrace to sport. If it is not overturned, sportsmanship and the Cup are out the window." New Zealand will appeal. Planning for a 1992 Cup competition off San Diego has been on indefinite hold, but is now expected to resume...
Lantos said the panel has not prejudged Pierce's potential criminal culpability but had reached a judgment about his tenure as secretary of HUD for eight years...
...Bruce Morrison (D-Conn.) called for a grand jury investigation of the top-level HUD activities during Pierce's administration. He said the Justice Department should "view this not just as a case of mismanagement and mistaken judgment at the highest levels of HUD, but an instance in which white-collar crime may well have occurred...