Word: arching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Your Feb. 29 article on Larry Fleischman's collection of American romantic painters says that John Sloan once attempted to proclaim a republic in Greenwich Village from Washington Square Arch. It was a student of Sloan's, one Gertrude Drick, termed...
Golden Bird," who instigated the revolution. Gertrude Drick (who carried black-bordered cards engraved WOE, "because Woe is me") discovered a way to the Arch's top, decided to stage a revolution, and invited Sloan, Marcel Duchamp and others. After an all-night revelry with lanterns, red balloons and liquor, climaxed by Woe reading her "Declaration of Independence," they left the Arch with balloons still floating from...
Regress into Cinema. In prose that is often witty and sometimes arch, Author Sanders (who swears he is ghostless) describes his descent into cinema villainy. No memoir can be got under way properly without the introduction of a clotty relative, and the author, who was born into a wealthy St. Petersburg family, recalls with admiration the pre-Revolution pastime of his favorite uncle, who used to lie in bed with a .22 pistol and shoot flies which gathered on the ceiling to eat the jam he had smeared there. Footmen stood by, Sanders recalls, with champagne, ammunition and more...
...artists gathers round a picnic fire. Sloan himself is in profile, holding a coffee cup. His wife kneels just behind him. He summered in Santa Fe, but Sloan worked in Greenwich Village and became a sort of guardian spirit of its artists. Once, from the top of Washington Square Arch, he went so far as to proclaim the Village an independent republic...