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First came the neorealist show. On opening night, the confused guests sat down on the armchair that was part of Jim Dine's painting called Four Rooms, and piled their champagne glasses into the porcelain sink (painted black) that is part of his lesser work, Black Bathroom No. 2. Two days later came a "lecture" by Modernist Composer John Cage, who accompanied his own voice with three tape recordings of his own voice, thus saying four different meaningless things at once. But that only led up to the climactic event, a happening called "Stars...
...convince Europe of its responsibilities--means other than America's famous gift of moral suasion. Ten men of good will and intellect have labored three months on this report, and have presented nothing to the public beyond what Mr. Black or Professor Mason could have thought up in an armchair in three hours...
...Adjoining this main entrance will be a flared rectangular exhibit building seven stories tall which will house a show to be created by Walt Disney. » THE BELL SYSTEM PAVILION, its ancient bell symbol blazoned incongruously on a dynamic modern facade designed by Harrison & Abramovitz. will give visitors an armchair ride through a "narrated story of man's need to communicate" on its upper level; the lower level will have gadgets that visitors may work themselves. » THE EASTMAN KODAK PAVILION is an undulating, low structure topped by an eight-story tower mounted with five giant color photographs illuminated...
...grand and too public," he announced when we had been seated in a rather too large armchair, offered tea, and asked to admire the new Brooks Brothers suit he was wearing. We complied, and he went on to tell us that he has always preferred to live in "Jamesian seclusion." Wasn't this a very untheatrical sort of wish, we wondered aloud. The doctor confessed to us that, like Mr. James's, his heart was not in the theatre...
...armchair historian, often as ignorant of the Revolutionary War as he is overinformed about the Civil War, Washington's suffering at Valley Forge may rank as the outstanding example of hardship heroically endured in the American Revolution. But the Continental Army spent only one terrible winter at Valley Forge. In the populous East, as Historian Van Every points out in this workmanlike second book of a projected four-volume history of The Frontier People of America (the first book was the well-received Forth to the Wilderness), "the war struck as a succession of violent but passing storms." Boston...