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...Bauhaus-type exercises Albers assigned to his students was the root of Rauschenberg's later practice: they had to find "interesting" discarded objects?anything from old tin cans to bicycle wheels to stones?and bring them into class as examples of accidental aesthetic form. Moreover, the stringent color exercises that Albers set would ultimately have a lot to do with the severe paintings Rauschenberg made between 1951 and '53: all-white and then all-black panels, the latter painted over a wrinkled mulch of newspaper, with no relationships of color. Twenty-five years ago, these pictures looked absurd; today they...
EATING IN AMERICA by WAVERLEY ROOT and RICHARD DE ROCHEMONT 512 pages. Morrow...
This outlook has led Wilson to scoff at the many social reformers who stress the need to deal with the causes of crime, and he says, "I have yet to see a 'root cause' or to encounter a government program that has successfully attacked...
...view of the book's crisis: "An innocent man and a greedy woman had fornicated and Ruth could not endorse the illusions that made it seem more than that. They were exaggerators, both of them." The reader agrees, and is inclined to root for Ruth who wants to save her marriage. He is also inclined to reflect on what appear to be similar- ities between Jerry and Updike himself: that galloping insomnia, for instance. Like Updike's own recently divorced wife, Ruth is a Unitarian minister's daughter. Like Updike and his wife, Ruth and Richard once...
...there for the game. He confessed at the start that because of his father, and his childhood memories of attending Yale games in the Bowl (I think the last he remembers featured Albie Booth running wild against a horde of West Point plebes), that he would root for Yale. Chance, or luck, however, placed a particulalry vitriolic Yale fan behind us who insisted on labeling every member of the Harvard squad as a bum, without discriminating between one player or the next. Harvard misfortune produced more glee. My father endured through close to four quarters of the Yale partisanship behind...