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Only 35 minutes after the Borodine set sail, the U.S. Commerce Department placed the two French companies involved in the compressor sale on a "temporary denials" list, a partial commercial boycott that prohibits them from buying any U.S. goods, services or technology. One of the firms, Dresser-France, the manufacturer of the three compressors, is the wholly owned subsidiary of Dresser Industries of Dallas. The other, Creusot-Loire, a Paris-based heavy-engineering firm, is the leading French contractor for Soviet pipeline orders...
...certain vivid super-reality. It is all so gruesome that horror turns to humor and the fun comes from the appreciation of being cleverly conned by Director Steve Miner. The way the eyeball of one of Jason's victims pops out of his skull and seems to sail out over the audience's head is alone worth buying a ticket and putting on the funny glasses...
...mind continues to sail in the white heat. Silently, in slow motion, the colonel's office comes back to its original shape. But the colonel is away today, and his men are not here either. It is Samer sitting behind the Swedish modern desk, his head barely showing over the top. This time the visitor enters the room to stand at attention. The boy looks him over with deep curiosity. "Who are you?"he asks, as if he were his father. He is puzzled by the absence of an answer. -By Roger Rosenblatt/Beirut
...good deal of traveling over the course of his fellowship. After graduation, he will visit his mother's relatives in Jackson, and then go to Europe until Oxford begins in October. One disappointment, though, is that he and the other Rhodes Scholars will not be able to sail overseas on the Queen Elizabeth II, as is traditional, because the ship is being used in the Falkland Islands war. "I was very upset about that," he says, "It's very unfortunate...
...nature rise to a peculiarly close relationship. "The big artist," Eakins wrote, "keeps a sharp eye on Nature and steals her tools . .. Then he's got a canoe of his own, smaller than Nature's, but big enough for every purpose ... With this canoe he can sail parallel to Nature's sailing." To spend time along the wall in the Philadelphia Museum where Eakins' major paintings and drawings of rowers and shells are hung is, eventually, to see what he meant. The perspective setups have the gratuitous complexity of Uccello and the modernity of Sol LeWitt...