Word: artists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...practice of displaying the portraits of all past Attorneys General. There is more apprehension over what to do about John Mitchell, the first Attorney General ever convicted of a felony (Kleindienst's crime was a misdemeanor). So far, Mitchell has not found time to pose for an artist...
Says Aronson: "The Japanese artist has a peculiar way of seeing things. For instance, the white backdrops in Pacific Overtures are the way in which the Japanese depict clouds. Since this is a play about issues and not about people and moods, Hal and I decided on white lighting. The white shows everything on stage. It has a crispness, a simplicity, a directness about it." The entire show is lit by the harmony and taste of Boris Aronson's vision...
Nail Bank. Like an artist preparing a canvas, the manicurist usually starts by strengthening and lengthening the nail with a special cement. The painting is applied on top of a layer or two of lacquer and is then covered with at least five protective coatings. The artwork will stay in prime condition for two or three weeks. Atlanta Manicurist Jean Dean tips clients' fingers with human nails that have been specially grown and sold to a "nail bank." Though most fashion plates keep their art at their fingertips, manicurists have a sizable toe trade among women headed for tropical...
...never on such a scale. If one could envisage a fairground produced by Robert Crumb and Krazy Kat out of Dr. Caligari's Cabinet, this would be it. The Ruckus group are omnivores, infatuated with New York, and you are never allowed to forget it. Archie Peltier, an artist from Minneapolis, was responsible for most of the engineering, and his handiwork is impressive. People can walk up inside the Ruckus World Trade Center, looking at its "tenants," finally meeting a diminutive figure of the funambulist Philippe Petit walking the rope between the towers...
...anti-elitist, egalitarian wave of the 60's as it survives into the 70's." Such students elect these careers, Riesman says, "as if to say, "I can't salve myself that I have an independent contribution to make to make to the world, as a scholar or an artist...