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Quality is another question however, and a subjective one, of course. There is a wide variety of approaches used in this show, but nothing seems particularly innovative. Many of the pieces are pleasing however, and since the show supposedly represents a cross-section of contemporary New England sculpture, it is...

Author: By Amy B. Mcintosh, | Title: GALLERIES | 4/21/1977 | See Source »

Davis expects his work to bear out the prevalent belief that the universe is not massive enough to draw itself back together, and will continue expanding indefinitely. But Davis says he thinks "it would be aesthetically pleasing" if the universe were heavy enough to someday stop expanding. Current estimates put...

Author: By George K. Sweetnam, | Title: Taking It to The Limit | 4/13/1977 | See Source »

This scrupulous examination of both physique and pose (many of the dancer pieces simply bear the name of the ballet position the subject is striking) pays off in some of the more original statuettes in the exhibit. In one series, "Dancer Fastening the String of Her Tights," Degas enlists his...

Author: By Mark T. Whitaker, | Title: Where Classicism Meets the Left Armpit | 3/9/1977 | See Source »

A program that offers something for everybody runs the risk of not much pleasing anybody. So it is with Jimmy Carter's economic program-an amalgam of quick tax rebates for individuals, permanent though much smaller tax cuts for low-income people and corporations, a speedup in public works...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLICY: Carter's Plan: Criticized, but Flexible | 1/24/1977 | See Source »

Love Affair. Meanwhile, the 1976 figures are especially pleasing to auto executives for several reasons. First, they reversed two years of disastrous sales decline that had led some critics of Detroit to believe, mistakenly, that the American public's longstanding love affair with the auto was ending. Second, buyers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Moving on a Fast Track into 1977 | 1/17/1977 | See Source »

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