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...that the closer you peer the odder it gets. Jennifer Bartlett, whose recent paintings are currently on view at the Paula Cooper Gallery in Manhattan, is a connoisseur of this kind of unease. There are exhibitions that mark a full assumption of powers: the idiom is assembled, the grammar wrought, the experiences wholly understood. So it is with this show of Bartlett's, whose unlikely motif is a dull little French garden, and whose prevailing mood is an exacerbated sense of attentiveness, suspense and imbalance...
Watt's policies broke dramatically with those Interior had pursued under both Democratic and Republican Administrations. He veered hard to the right, away from unalloyed concern for environmental preservation, and toward commercial use of the Government's vast land holdings. Remarkably, he wrought deep changes mainly without changing laws; his tools were budgetary finesse, regulatory manipulation and personnel shifts. "He was a consummate bureaucrat," says National Wildlife Federation Executive Lynn Greenwalt, an erstwhile Watt colleague at Interior. "He knew how to make a big, sprawling agency do what he wanted." Watt's trouble was that he tended...
heavy reparations and the loss of major economic assets. But it wrought such psychological pandemonium and so thoroughly destroyed social as well as financial confidence that it still stands as the classic inflation of modern times. As such it remains a nightmarish symbol of a problem that has become perhaps the most persistent one haunting modern economies. Though the chronic inflations that bedevil the industrial West have never spiraled so totally out of control, the German mega-inflation nonetheless serves as a constant warning...
Perhaps the most dramatic revolution in the way people live was wrought by technology. In 1923 private telephones were still largely playthings of the rich. Many rural areas had no electricity. The automobile was beginning to appear in large quantities. Radio's early enthusiasts tinkered with crystal sets in their living rooms just as today's home-computer buffs hunch over their machines...
Viet Nam was a televised war, a "livingroom war," in the phrase of Critic Michael Arlen. The camera still conveys, more immediately than almost anything in print, the imagery and texture of war: whirring helicopters, cascades of bombs from the bellies of B-52s, the devastation wrought by battle. As used in the series, the camera is also a neutral observer: it provides a forum to participants ranging from former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger to Vietnamese Premier Pham Van Dong and from Americans who considered the war honorable to those who believed it immoral. Conclusions about right and wrong...