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...charge is significant because Kadem is a leftist, unlike Celik and Ay, who have ties to an ultraright Turkish terrorist group known as the Gray Wolves. If it can be proved that Kadem was involved in the shooting, it would discredit East bloc charges that only Turkish neo- Nazis had a hand in the plot...
...generally agreed to be the worst in living memory. The six curators seemed to have their neural nets patched directly into Manhattan's East Village, that journalists' playpen of urban gentrification, which in the '80s is replacing SoHo as the city's art-based boomtown, its Montmartre of the Neo. There is a small deposit of serious East Village art, but none was represented at the Whitney...
...word neo-expressionism is misapplied to American art in the '80s. The marks that convey heaviness and heat -- turgid, lava-like floods of paint, fulgurous color, primitive and mythic imagery, and the like -- are, as any art student knows by now, conventional signs that can be (and usually are) manipulated as lightly and coldly as Coke bottles in a Warhol. In this republic, the "expressive" comes down to another form of pop art, retooled for an audience strung out on fictions of personal authenticity...
...concerned about how economic cutoffs might affect blacks in South Africa. "People ought ( to stop using us as alibis for not doing what they know they ought to do," he says. Many other black leaders agree. "Any movement toward the isolation of apartheid is a welcome development," says Neo Mnumazana, observer at the U.N. from the African National Congress, a black coalition party outlawed in South Africa...
From his mountaintop home in Tabernash, Colo., Singlaub directs the World Anti-Communist League. Founded in 1966, WACL has been tainted by ties to ultrarightists, neo-Nazis and Latin American death squads, though Singlaub claims that objectionable members have been purged. Last September President Reagan sent a greeting to WACL's annual convention in San Diego...