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...receptive has the public become, Hughes says, that even television is ready for modern art. During the past three years, he has written and narrated an eight-part series of hour-long programs on various aspects of 20th century art for a BBC-TV and Time-Life Television coproduction. Titled Shock of the New, it will be shown on public television stations next January. "Picasso pervades the entire series," says Hughes. "The history of cubism is largely about Picasso. No discussion of art as political emblem can avoid Guernica, the last major political work of art. Picasso was a dominating...
...Conti. Some were "turned" into witnesses, some disappeared, and some are to be tried separately. Of the 18 defendants in this popularly named "Hell's Angels trial" only ten are Angels, or former Angels. Eight never joined the club, including the three women defendants who are wives of various defendants...
...mainly white institutions in nine surrounding suburban districts. The decision, which was not accompanied by a written opinion outlining the court's reasoning, was a blow to the flagging hopes of school-integration supporters that the Justices might be receptive to cross-district busing plans now before various federal courts. The advocates argue such broader plans are necessary because the white flight to the suburbs has left central-city school districts so heavy with minorities that integration becomes meaningless...
...shoring up the foundation over a longer period, there is nothing like an endowment: a large chunk of money tucked away in solid investments. The annual income from the investments (nowadays from 8% to 10%) cushions deficits, while the principal provides a hedge against inflation and a bulwark against various disasters...
Hellman convincingly portrays herself as someone who would tell more if she only knew more. Pose or not, the stratagem works and the surface holds. People meet, get drunk together, exchange pleasantries or insults, separate, come to various bad or unhappy ends. Mobsters mix with writers, money is thrown around, beauty saves the last waltz for evil. All this is transmitted through a literary imagination clearly shaped by the 1930s. The wastrels and addled debutantes whom Hellman keeps bumping into could have been, perhaps were, created by F. Scott Fitzgerald...