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Still, aside from the U.S. exhibit, there were numerous diversions. At the British pavilion, there was a dizzyingly impressive retrospective of Bridget Riley's op eyebinders, and the slender, stark sculptures of Phillip King-possibly the only man alive who has successfully united the minimal and the baroque. In the Japanese pavilion, the most promising young artist was clearly Jiro Takamatsu, 32, whose large-scale pastel platforms were built on weird exaggerations of Renaissance perspective, aimed at destroying the balance between real and imaginary worlds...
Rock performances, immediate and blaring, are the heart of the medium. The Beatles and Dylan succeed in spite of (and not because of) the fact that we will never get to hear them in the stark pulsating flesh. The power of the new music is precisely that it is sometimes able to transform a particular event into a permanent influence--one to blunt the hard edges that each of us carefully cultivates...
...Grand Central complex-from the north, a stubby tower with a clock at its architectural nave; from the south, a Beaux Arts Eclectic facade crowned by monumental sculpture that nobody studied but everybody remembered. From either side, it was an ornamental point in the city's stark grid, a recognizable feature amidst its towering but all-too-featureless walls. But five years ago, the 59-story Pan Am Building was built just south of 45th Street, blocking off for all time the vista south from Park Avenue...
...FIFTH HORSEMAN IS FEAR. A stark, symbolic tale of the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, raised to a high level of creative cinema by the measured skill of Writer-Director Zbynēk Brynych...
...FIFTH HORSEMAN IS FEAR. A stark symbolic tale of the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia is raised to a high level of creative cinema by the measured skill of Writer-Director Zbynek Brynych...