Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...admani (income from above). Every Oriental language has its own phrase for corruption-and in every tongue the words are unpleasantly familiar. All around the rim of mainland China, many Asian nations are making notable progress, but the greatest obstacle remains the furtive hand in the till, the kickback artist, the bagman, the specialist in "squeeze." Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos, who has more than his share of corruption to bog him down at home, is convinced that "we must change a whole way of life. We must do it or fail to survive...
Chiseling is a part of the Asian ambiance, from the ramshackle capital of lazy little Laos to the broad boulevards of booming Bangkok and the expense-account nightclubs of prosperous Japan. Even rigid Communist disciplinarians have failed to suppress the fast-buck artist: from Red China come tales of profiteering in the communes; refugees report that shady officials do a brisk business in exit permits; and the government is constantly renewing its "Four Cleans" anticorruption campaign. As for North Viet Nam, Hanoi recently headlined a Politburo official's complaint that party members were indulging in "dubious financial situations...
...utes. For sound track, there were the taped comments of the volunteers. "I'm a bit cynical about mine," said a girl who described herself as a model, "because it's worth money." The director was Miss Yoko Ono, 34, a Tokyo-born artist-composer and currently an entrepreneur of happenings in London. The premiere was a benefit for Britain's Institute of Contemporary Arts, a prestigious public patron headed by eminent Art Philosopher Sir Herbert Read. But the point of it all was lost on most Londoners. Sales of the opening-night tickets ($4.20 top) were...
...zany animals (The Cat in the Hat, Horton the Elephant, Yertle the Turtle) have captivated some 33 million buyers of children's books. Hamming it up for the kids, he popped in front of drawings by Henry Moore, brought gales of youthful laughter as he told them the artist's name was either "Heinrich Moorehaus or Schweinhenkel Block-haus, or maybe Schweinehund Block-enkopf." He stared at the misplaced toes a girl had attached to a bongo drum-playing doll, asked: "Is that a three-toed tree toad?" He told others that he was working on "a boomerang...
What is most startling about the drawings is that they were the work of an eager young man in his twenties and not a mature artist surfeited with life and pleasure. But perhaps Beardsley was born ancient; one friend recalled that, even as a child, Beardsley had "the oldest eyes I have ever seen...