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DIRECTIONS (ABC, 1-1:30 p.m.). The World of Shalom of Safed, an award-winning film on the Israeli primitive painter (real name: Shalom Moskowitz). Repeat...
Helen Frankenthaler, L.H.D., painter...
...sensitive son of an English immigrant who had set up shop as a wallpaper maker in the bustling new town of Steubenville, Ohio, where he arrived in 1818. Thomas helped his father with designs, was shown how to paint likenesses by one of the itinerant portrait painters who trudged from town to isolated town in early America. He set out to be a traveling portrait painter himself. Yet as he rested by the side of the road between jobs, he found himself powerfully drawn to the wilderness surrounding him. "These scenes of solitude from which the hand of nature...
...with his painter's eye, a countryside that was indeed romantic, with deep gorges, beetling cliffs, and tumbling torrents. As a professional, Cole rejoiced because it was also a landscape that-unlike the more familiar Alps and the more picturesque Italian ruins-was at the time undiscovered by artists. "No Tivolis, Ternis, Mont Blancs, hackneyed and worn by the daily pencils of hundreds," he wrote with delight, "but primeval forests and virgin lakes...
...defector from Hanoi, however, reported that life for the average North Vietnamese is grim, and that at least 50% of the people no longer supoort the government. The defector, a onetime portrait painter in his late 20s, testified that there is much discontent, but that people are afraid of talking honestly except among friends since the penalty for dissent is jail. Rationing is still strict, he said, and the 30-lb. monthly rice allotment is now 60% laced with Soviet wheat, a fact that distresses the North Vietnamese, who, like most Asians, find cereal grains untoothsome...