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...trumpets blared, the drums picked up the pulse-bumping, syncopated calypso beat, and the towering man in the red silk pants pranced out on the stage, his great eyes wide, his mouth an elongated O of wonder, his arms moving in ritualistic, angular figurations. The music seemed to course through the long, flexible arc of his brown body like water through a garden hose; occasionally a soft cry broke through his half-open lips. Thus 6 ft.-6 in. Geoffrey Holder-at 26 a solo dancer of the Metropolitan Opera, successful painter, actor, singer and choreographer-last week made...
...brush, it is unlikely that the immense treasure of Chinese painting would have evolved as it did. But for well over 3,000 years, painting and calligraphy developed hand in hand, raising virtuoso brushwork to such disciplined levels that generations of Chinese artists created their masterpieces "on fine silk that permitted no erasures...
...Chinese painting history. And some idea of what Li's painstaking rendition looked like can be got from a work of the general's son, Li Chao-tao (known as the "Little General"). Travelers in a Mountain Pass (opposite], a rare, 1,000-year-old painting on silk, is believed to be his. Done in metallic blues and greens, it creates a panorama of cloud-shrouded peaks and gorges against which is shown a group of horsemen and camels, led by a red-coated figure that may be Emperor Ming Huang himself. In the foreground, pack asses roll...
...painter, Mi Fei kept his best work for his friends' appreciation alone, and even then never allowed them to touch the silk for fear it would become soiled. His painting pointed to a new direction. Originating a pointillist style of ink-splash dots (still known as "Mi-dots"), he produced in paintings like Auspicious Pines in the Spring Mountains China's first impressionist landscape. Its curious sugarloaf mountains are drawn in loosely applied brush strokes and washes, trees are carefully controlled blobs of ink. The human scale is merely suggested with the bare-bones outline of a lone...
...nominate Beck for the Man of the Year. He has served as a perfect example to union laborers by showing them where their weekly dues end up. I only hope that the Senate investigators continue to probe into the union bosses and rout out the undesirables, silk shirts...