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...Malacca jungle last week, Acting Police Corporal Roslan Bin Haji Mohammed waited three nights for his quarry. Someone had "whispered," i.e., informed, against noisy, hunchbacked Cheung Kit Ming, better known as "the Ape of Malacca." A top Communist guerrilla, a veteran killer and terrorist, Cheung had a $25,000 price on his head. On the third night of the ambush, the Ape appeared and the police corporal shot him dead...
...Kooning, Jackson Pollock, Paul Cezanne, Paolo Veronese and Leonardo da Vinci. In addition, the color pages have provided the opportunity to show a wide range of other art forms: from modern church architecture to flower arrangements, from Indian sand painting to luminous sculpture, from 20th century fireworks to Ming ceramics...
Contemporary with the European Renaissance in art, the Ming (or "Radiant") era was one in which craftsmanship and art were synonymous. It produced a dazzling array of boldly colored and designed textiles, in addition to the fine lacquer work, painting and ceramics for which the period is best known...
...some seven centuries before. Hsieh Ho's six standards, by which Chinese painting was judged: 1) rhythmic vitality, 2) anatomical structure, 3) conformity with nature, 4) suitability of coloring, 5) artistic grouping, 6) copying of classical masterpieces. In striving to meet these requirements, even the greatest of Ming painters seldom departed from familiar themes; but they achieved such happy variations as scholarly Shen Chou's pink study of spring (see cut), and they more than made up in refinement what they lacked in fire...
...Ming ceramics, both plain white and bright-colored, were more distinctive products of the age. Of the two shown here, the underworld god at left has a clenched intensity seldom equaled in Western sculpture; the Oriental Apollo at right, riding a rooster into the dawn light, is no less intense in his calmness. Both ceramics share the one quality that Chinese artists have always considered of first importance: a linear fluency like that of clouds driven before a gale...