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TODAY'S Gubernatorial and Senate races confront Massachusetts voters with two markedly different choices; in one race they will have to pick the lesser of two evils while in the other, they have a choice between two credible, issue-oriented candidates. The state will be able to both tread water and move ahead at the same time. The outcome of the Governor's race clearly pretends to be one of the most critical junctures in the state's history. Democratic nominee Edward J. King has neither offered the voters any sensible vision of the state's future direction...
...Lesser problems that had to be worked out included Egypt's demand for compensation for oil that Israel has pumped from the Gulf of Suez during the eleven years of Israeli occupation, and the Israeli demand for payment for its investment in roads, airfields and settlements in the Sinai during the same period...
...called Darrell Johnson, the manager who inadvertently led the Sox to the pennant in 1975, all right, because he didn't show up for a lot of games. He was the lesser of two evils when compared to Zimmer...
...expressionism in purely formalist terms, the painters themselves were obsessed by content. "We assert," said Mark Rothko, "that the subject is crucial and only that subject matter is valid which is tragic and timeless." His "we" included Clyfford Still, Barnett Newman, William Baziotes, Theodores Stamos and, in greater or lesser degrees, all the abstract expressionists with the possible exception of de Kooning...
Also featured are a light, airy-hued canvas by Philip Guston--a lesser abstract expressionist but a very good work of his and William Baziotes' "Bird of Paradise" executed in 1947. Ad Reinhardt also manages to slip into the show with an untitled work done...