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This King burst onto the scene most spectacularly in 1967 in an anti-Vietnam War speech that won him not monuments or holidays, but disparaging criticism. As U.S. Cold War posturing and Vietnam militarism derailed the support of the black freedom struggles of the 1960s, King began to see that America’s global imperialism, obsessive pursuit of free market capitalism, and white supremacy are intimately intertwined and connected to each other. Reconciling his profoundly humanist sentiments with the reality of modern racism, capitalism, and imperialism, King saw black civil rights as merely a prelude to the larger struggle...
...Icons of 1960s counterculture often fizzled or self-destructed even before their 15 minutes were up. But not underground cartoonist Robert Crumb. Like his most famous creation, Fritz the Cat, Crumb seems to be running through multiple lives, as a wickedly dark commentator on America with an apparently inexhaustible supply of ideas - all of which are on display at the exhibition "Robert Crumb: A Chronicle of Modern Times" at London's Whitechapel Art Gallery. Crumb's brilliant, savage but also truly comic strips earned him immediate cult status when they were first published in the U.S. in the late...
...savvy, media-friendly attorney renowned for his resplendent dress and seemingly effortless charm with juries; of an inoperable brain tumor diagnosed in 2003; at his home in Los Angeles. Born in Shreveport, La., a great-grandson of slaves, Cochran won recognition after suing police departments for abuse in the 1960s and proudly displayed copies of his plaintiffs' multimillion-dollar checks in his office. His fame crested in 1995 after his successful defense of O.J. Simpson, against seemingly overwhelming evidence, of charges that he murdered his ex-wife and her friend. Cochran's signature line, a reference to a blood-stained...
...other genre was traditionally shown at stag parties; hence, stag films. These were hard-core shorts, 10 to 20 mins. long, almost always silent (even into the 1960s) and with anonymous performers, usually prostitutes and their johns, who didn't mind displaying their genitals but sometimes masked their faces. The films were essentially documents, documentaries, of two or more people satisfying their urgent desires. The furtiveness was part of the kick for the all-male audience at a Rotary meeting or frat-house smoker. The fact that these films were so raw, and illegal, at a time when publicly exhibited...
...living room features several impressive neo-Metaphysical pieces from the 1960s and '70s, including Orpheus the Wearied Troubadour (1970, pictured). During this period, De Chirico reworked the haunting depictions of piazzas and faceless troubadours from the canvases of the 1910s and '20s that made him famous. There are also neo-Baroque portraits of De Chirico and his wife, Isabella, in regal 17th century attire, which display his masterly brushwork and ironic eye for melodrama...