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...mini-Czechoslovakia," said one disconsolate painter as he walked away with a ripped canvas. "Now you know what they mean by socialist realism in art," said another. Five painters were arrested and charged with "petty hooliganism" for trying to resist the bulldozers. By week's end all had been released...
Died. André Dunoyer de Segonzac, 90, well-known French painter and printmaker; of bronchitis; in Paris. Inspired by Corot and Courbet, the young aristocrat shunned the early 1900s revolutionary experiments of his Fauvist and Cubist Parisian friends and bought a house in the south of France, where he painted gentle, Cézannesque still lifes and landscapes glimmering with the unique southern light. Retaining and refining his style throughout his lifetime, Segonzac won and kept the respect of artists, critics and collectors...
...late. For months, Beard, a house painter, had been running flat-out, exploiting the same beguiling tactics that had created a wellspring of voter support and vaulted him into the state legislature in 1972. Beard used a few radio spots-written by himself #151;but mainly he walked around shaking hands and displaying homemade campaign signs. He stumped Rhode Island's crowded beaches so diligently that sunburn sidelined him for a few days. "I'm nobody's man but the people's," Beard would say, proclaiming his honesty, his solidarity with his fellow workingman...
Beard's victory over Tiernan-23,787 votes to 22,025-left him with just $40 in his pocket. His annual salary as a painter is now $9,000 (he gets $300 extra as a state legislator), but he can look forward to receiving a raise to $42,500 next year. In a zealously Democratic district, Beard is favored to win in November over Vincent Rotondo, the little-known Republican candidate...
Flying Lessons. Muhammad Ali, of course, is a success story too. But Ali does not dwell on his background (the son of a Louisville sign painter, he had a more stable childhood than Foreman and finished high school). Ali lives in the present and future. For relaxation, he does anything but escape behind a locked gate. During the summer he interrupted workouts to take helicopter flying lessons. For long trips, he bought a full-size Scenicruiser bus and refitted the inside as a plush mobile home. Truckers who heard a strange voice jabbering away over the Citizen's Band...