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...opposite page), though sometimes representational, dealt with pure colors in flat planes. They tried to remove the traditional moat between the picture and the viewer. Mondrian's late paintings can be seen as the visible imprint of an invisible pattern surrounding the viewer. Even the walls of his stark studio were hung with movable panels that he rearranged to suit his desire, in effect making the studio a spatial work of art. Van der Leek used white in his work not as background but as space that separated his flecks of color, like atoms locked together in the Tinker...
...point. "We look to the church to lead and often find it a reluctant caboose to the train of history," says the Rev. John Russell Jr., a chaplain at M.I.T. "The amazing thing, in the face of all that we have seen to be wrong, is the stark fact that we have not quit." And instead of abandoning the church, they have stayed to set it on a rightful course...
...Cornwall and Lincolnshire, which she calls "a fascinating horizontal landscape, terrifically recessional." After three years at the Royal College of Art, she began following her pointillist god Seuiat and the interpenetrating planes of Italian futurism. Now she lives in a bone-white flat with white-painted floors as stark as her work. She designs on graph paper, often resorts to math books for inspiration, turns the actual execution over to apparently myopic artisans to reproduce on canvas...
...Theatre Company of Boston is closing out a financially harrowing season with a pair of stark one-acters by Harold Pinter. Choosing such a fashionable playwright for its finale is almost reactionary by the standards of this audacious group, which has included several rarely seen plays among its avant garde offerings this year. Pinter already has a shiny reputation, and the Theatre Company's polished productions do it justice...
...TIME brought up the Monroe Doctrine in regard to the Cuban missile crisis. As a purely unilateral doctrine, forcefully imposed on an entire continent of people who did not ask for it, this document stands for a stark effrontery to international dignity and has never been recognized under international...