Word: agee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dependence on the whims of twelve-year-olds," says Elektra/Asylum Chairman Joe Smith. "No longer is the Establishment above pop music." Adds Coury, "What we've done is put the industry on notice that there are no longer limits to album sales. Now the audience ranges in age from 15 to 50, and we're only seeing the beginning...
DIED. William A. Steiger, 40, genial, dynamic, six-term Republican Congressman from Wisconsin; of a heart attack; in Washington, D.C. A native of Oshkosh, Steiger served for six years as a state assemblyman before winning election to the U.S. Congress at age 28. A self-described moderate Republican, he co-sponsored the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, helped launch the volunteer Army, and this year proposed cutting the maximum capital gains tax from 49% to 25%. Despite opposition from President Carter, Steiger's colleagues eventually set the maximum tax rate...
DIED. Harry Winston, 82, showy Fifth Avenue gem merchant who sold $175 million worth of precious stones annually; of a heart attack; in New York City. A jewelry salesman from age 15, Winston became one of the world's largest diamond dealers by outbidding competitors for famous stones like the Jonker and Hope as well as by producing cheap engagement rings wholesale for Montgomery Ward. His refusal to be photographed, ostensibly to avoid being recognized and possibly robbed, only increased his visibility in business...
...world than any book in recent memory. In gold capitals on a burgundy ground, its cover announces "The Nelson Rockefeller Collection." Inside it resembles-and is-a mail-order catalogue, with scores of lavishly shot objects. These range from an 18th century Chinese porcelain teapot stand ($65) to Age of Bronze, a nude youth by Rodin, at $7,500. Everything comes from Rockefeller's private collection-one of the most celebrated, public or private, in America. But everything is imitation. The Modigliani you can have for only $550 is just a glossy photograph. All the sculptures and ceramics...
...copy Titian, and Delacroix Rubens, and so on down the history of art? Perfectly true: but in every case an artist was doing the copying and the result was another work of art. There is no relationship between the copies Rubens made, in the high humility of his mature age, in order to keep learning from Titian, and the mass production of plastic Egyptian lions by the merchandising division of New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art. There may not be much wrong with such knick-knacks-as long as they don't become substitutes, in people...