Word: artfully
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Vulgarity is a part of life and art," said one student at the prestigious Rhode Island School of Design. He was trying to explain why scandalized officials in Providence should appreciate the new art exhibition staged off-campus last week by the school's students and faculty. Its subject: "Private parts. Any size. Any medium. Any thing. Any one. Any private. Any part...
After reviews of the show appeared in the local papers, hundreds of art lovers turned up at the studio. One irate city councilman threatened cancellation of the school's tax-exempt status, accusing the participants of "violating every standard of the community under the guise of art." The Providence police apparently shared his indignation. Under a new antipornography law that had been signed the very day the show opened, the cops raided the place and seized some 43 drawings and paintings. City Solicitor Ronald Glantz hoped, however, that he would not have to prosecute. Said he: "The whole thing...
...just 2/5 sec. short of the track record despite the slow early running?and won, going away, by a neck. Steve Cauthen and Affirmed outwitted and outran their challengers for the $136,200 winner's share of the Preakness purse. It was a lesson in the jockey's art...
Much has been made of the fact that Cauthen was preparing for the jockey's craft at the age of twelve. His zeal was tireless: flailing bales of hay to practice his whip technique, huddling with his father over race films to decipher the art of moving a horse up in traffic or setting him down for the stretch run, crouching along the rail at the starting gate to learn how to navigate those first chaotic moments of a race. At 13, he was practicing yoga to develop his concentration?yoga at 13!?because he knew he would need...
John Carter Brown, Litt.D.. director of the National Gallery of Art...