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...Model, 1964, the grinding contradictions of his formal system lock at last, when the haste and incompletion of the surface are overcome by the tensions of their massive underpinning, late Picasso has great visceral power-if not, necessarily, the magical efficacy he sought. Even in travesty, he knew the tragic; and though these late paintings are not the best of Picasso (let alone Schiffs "apotheosis"), they are to be valued as fragments of the kind of talent that today seems as distant as the moon itself. -By Robert Hughes
...support our total involvement in the war in Lebanon. Yet the removal of our Marines from Beirut is a tragic mistake that endangers our position throughout the world. Pulling out of Lebanon without an effective contingency plan for continued influence in that region will cause our allies to lose confidence in our willingness and ability to come to their aid should the occasion arise. The Middle East is not the only hotbed of ideological turmoil. The effects of our actions in Lebanon will influence foreign opinion and weaken faith...
...flight of the spacecraft Challenger [Feb. 13] gives me hope. We live on a medium-size planet attached to an ordinary star at the edge of a run-of-the-mill galaxy. Space technology is our key to a greater universe. Earth, as is amply demonstrated by the tragic events that are occurring in the world today, does not have room enough. Only space can unite and save mankind...
...past, that journey was arduous and often tragic for Soviet exiles, particularly for those poets and writers who fled their country after the 1917 Revolution. A few, like Vladimir Nabokov, joined the mainstream of modern literature and enriched it. A handful returned in desperation to the Soviet Union, only to perish hi Stalin's camps, like the eminent critic Dmitri Mirsky, or by suicide, as in the case of the great idiosyncratic poet Marina Tsvetayeva. Many remained stranded on alien shores where their writing disappeared with scarcely a trace...
...flirting with the transcendelic movement (Listen to the Flower People), Spinal Tap went heavy-metal, with two-hour twin guitar solos and the eeriest special effects this side of Golgotha. The group's album Intravenous DeMilo went bronze (just two levels below gold), and Tap flourished despite the tragic demises of a series of drummers-one spontaneously combusted onstage another choked to death on vomit (not his own). Now the group has come to tour the U.S., and Moviemaker Marty DiBergi has turned down a chance to direct On Golden Pond 3-D in order to document...