Word: art
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Neither in environment nor in heredity can I find the exact instrument that fashioned me, the anonymous roller that pressed upon my life a certain intricate watermark whose unique design becomes visible when the lamp of art is made to shine through life's foolscap...
...months old, I-I is entertaining as well as profitable. Behind its TIME-sized, pop-art covers often lurk such pro vocative questions as "Is 35 over the hill these days?" (on Wall Street, that is) and "What makes Dallas that way?" It also prints lively and not altogether flattering profiles of leading moneymen...
...caricatures, one explanation is that serious artists in this century have ever more moved toward abstraction and developed an audience that now finds realism intrinsically banal. But, as Levine knows, there is another, even larger audience consisting of "people who don't live solely in the art world, people who are related to the kind of people I paint." He is delighted when one of those exclaims, "That picture of a presser looks exactly like my uncle," or "That woman on the beach reminds me of my aunt...
...Passed Nudists. The idea began in Seattle. In 1963, Philanthropist Paul Friedlander united the city's various cultural fund-raising operations under the name PONCHO (Patrons of Northwest Culture Organizations), then raised $111,000 by auctioning off animals, art, jewelry and a caboose. Seattle's PONCHO auction has become an annual affair (this year's net: $171,550), and Friedlander on his own time and money has traveled the country advising other...
Last year San Diego's COMBO (Combined Arts of San Diego) raised $250,000 auctioning off such items as a new house, an African safari and a ride in the Goodyear blimp; nobody bid on the two-week vacation in a nudist colony. Orlando's (Fla.) PESO (Participation Enriches Science, Music and Art Organizations), which raised $162,000 at its auction last year, had no trouble disposing of 50 tons of orange-grove fertilizer and a $2,500 orange-grove sprayer. And in Phoenix this year, such items as hernia and cataract operations, stud service by a registered...