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...flood of inanity, fantasy and "uglification" now so widely acclaimed as art of importance and value. Your critic appears to be one of the few reviewers who have managed to maintain a sense of balance between experiment and accomplishment, between painting as a manifestation of skill, taste esthetic and plastic achievement as opposed to the accidental drippings, smearings anc daubings of the abstract expressionists...
...British novelists since Max Beerbohm seem to think is the native speech of proper Bostonians. He eats "Vit-Health" sandwich-spread that his mother sends him. He is courageous and dedicated, but his eager virtue turns into fumbling crime. His idealistic dabbling in Indo-Chinese politics-he furnishes a plastic bomb to a local faction-becomes real blood on his shoes. "I must get a shine before I see the Minister," says Pyle, after his bomb explodes, killing the wrong people...
...Nate Parker's Body Mechanics class, one of Radcliffe's favorite ways of satisfying Physical Education requirements. We discovered a small room, whose pink walls were sprinkled with neuter anatomical charts that compensated in bulging muscles for what they lacked in personality. On the floor were ten silver-grey plastic mats, occupied by ten girls in neat white blouses and neat blue shorts. They were learning "The Art of Relaxation" and "The Correction of Posture Faults." We had missed the relaxing session that opens each class, but we had arrived in time for the metatarsal arch contest...
Nivola's sand reliefs suggest comparison with Egyptian friezes both in technique and design. His modern use of plastic elements and abstract design have the same qualities of solemnity and simplicity; the concern for the essential; the regularity of the whole; and the flat streamlined look of their Egyptian counterparts. The most successful architectural use of the wall relief so far are the murals in the Olivetti showroom in New York where Nivola worked from the beginning of the stores construction with the architects. They show most clearly the influences of which he speaks: "Sardinian prehistoric constructions and sculptures, traditional...
When the heat-ray image forms on the plastic, the "bright" parts of it are warmer than the dim parts. Their heat passes through the plastic and evaporates part of the oil film, making it locally thinner. When light is turned on the oil film, it glows in the bright "interference" colors of an oil slick floating on water. The colors have nothing to do with the real colors in visible light of the object that Eva is viewing. They show thin or thick parts of the oil film-and therefore outline the object by its temperature. Hot parts show...