Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Congratulations to the artist who did the cover portrait of Bishop Pike [Nov. 11]. It is a veritable picture of the modern Everyman, torn by the anguish of contradictions of his own making. Pike as your artist indicates represents not an individual...
...Artist Boris Chaliapin went to Cambridge to paint the cover portrait, and according to Julia it was the "beginning of a life friendship." After a sitting Boris would trade paintbrushes for Julia's pots and pans, and concoct some of his favorite Russian recipes: shashlik and a peasant soup made with chicken giblets, dill pickles and brine...
...furnace room of Herculane-um's suburban baths, the cordwood is stacked, ready to fuel a fire that has been cold for nearly 20 centuries. On the wall of a snack bar, some graffito artist has daubed a phallus and the words MA(N)SVETA TENE (Handle with Care). In a cereal and wine shop, jars brimful of beans and, chickpeas await the next customer. At a street crossing, the inscription on a pillar warns litterbugs that they can be jailed or fined...
...real trouble with the picture, though, is that Truffaut might better have made another. The somewhat remote theme challenged his technical competence more than his heart; the finished film displays the artisan more than the artist. Truffaut is France's most consistently exciting moviemaker, but in his recent pictures he has seemed to be more interested in the movies than he is in life...
...maybe you believe in miracles, or you're already in the Rock 'n' Roll bag and it's too late to get out. There still are two ways a young group or artist can make it: starting from the top with connections, or working up from the bottom with forbearance. Lew Opler, a sophomore in Lowell House, spent a month of last summer experimenting from the bottom. On Aug. 21, he knocked on the door of Richmond Recording, one of New York's biggest music publishing houses, and asked the receptionist if he could see whoever...