Word: art
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HUUI, HUUI by Anne Burr is no shining example of the playwright's art. But Producer-Director Joseph Papp of New York's Shakespeare Festival manages to make it bright enough to provide an evening of unusual interest. Barry Primus plays an eccentric loner with a father fixation, who utters "Huui, Huui" in moments of distress. Two women, charmed by his innocence, try to change him, but he eludes them only to meet final disillusionment...
...Your reviewer of this season's coffee-table books may dig big art books, but he obviously doesn't understand or like our innocent seashells [The Shell: Five Hundred Million Years of Inspired Design; Nov. 29]. Explain to him that all those hundreds of glistening shells that he thinks were polished and doctored actually came out of the sea just as Photographer Landshoff shows them...
...Camera Industrialist Theodore Brislcin, for example, lost $220,000, Shoe Millionaire Harry Karl dropped $80,-000, and such cool hands as Phil Silvers, Zeppo Marx and Tony Martin lost heavily. An investigation by the FBI followed, and last week five players in the games (two real estate developers, an art collector, an investor and a professional card shark) were found guilty on 49 counts of conspiracy, face sentences of from five to 130 years. Their gimmick: to station a confederate at a ceiling peephole in the Friars' card rooms; the "peeper" would then transmit electronic signals about opponents...
...impressive art collection of John Hay ("Jock") Whitney was recently featured in the quality bimonthly magazine Art in America. But millionaire Whitney does not confine his collecting to art alone. His latest acquisition: An in America magazine...
...spectacular gathering of intellectuals from 28 countries probably didn't teach anyone enough to justify the expense of putting it together, but for the uninitiated, it did contain a valuable lesson in one little known art: conferencemanship...