By E. Graydon Carter

As clean and fresh as a magenta night sky, Georgia O'Keeffe's canvases have long evoked both the energy and the purity of her adopted American Southwest. And now, at the age of 94, O'Keeffe has turned anew to a medium she all but abandoned in 1917: sculpture. Apparently inspired by her assistant and acolyte, Juan Hamilton, 36, O'Keeffe finally completed Abstraction, an 11-ft. spiral of painted cast aluminum. Now on display in a sculpture show at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, her first major work as a sculptor gives her further claim to the title of doyenne of American art.

Another title, the Marques de Pubol, has the perfect ring for the surreal image of its outre honoree, Salvador Dali, 78.

The artist has been tapped to be a member of the Spanish nobility by King Juan Carlos, 44. The honorific (after the Iberian castle Dali bought for his late wife Gala) is not so terrific: no House of Lords, no special privileges. The new marques is as contentious as ever, however. Last week he reportedly claimed that organizers of a retrospective had included 80 bogus canvases in the show. Pooh to Pubol, says one of the organizers, his former personal secretary Peter Moore. The works are more than surreal, they're real.

Only when he was safely atop the Silverthorn Ice Corridor of 11,452-ft. Mount Athabasca in Alberta could Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, 62, finally take a breather during his vacation. He has been on a two-week cross-country trip in a private railway car, and from the start in Vancouver the Prime Minister was met at virtually every stop along the way by picketers, protesters and assorted Trudeauphobes, who screamed obscenities and lustily pelted his railway car with eggs and tomatoes. Particularly annoyed by out-of-work demonstrators at Salmon Arm, B.C., Trudeau responded before TV cameras with a monodigital gesture that prompted one observer to note: "Let it never be said that the Prime Minister refused to lift a finger on behalf of the unemployed."

Luke, I have taught you many things, my boy. Don't tell shaggy Wookie stories, for one thing. Also, always be on the lookout for a hot book property. While you were off chasing Princess Leia, Rusty Miller, 12, a junior high school student in Satellite Beach, Fla., came up with The Jedi Master's Quizbook, a compilation of 425 intergalactic questions that will have Yoda himself scratching his noggin. After seeing Star Wars five times and The Empire Strikes Back six, young Master Rusty spent three months compiling his collection, which his mother typed up. George Lucas, 38, the father of us all, approved the project, and that means the Force will be with it upon publication in November. How many legs does a Probot have? Four--but even I, Obi-Wan Kenobi, had to run the films through my Betamax for that one. As to the others, Luke, you must search out the answers for yourself.

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