Word: artists
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Civil libertarians and writers immediately charged that the proposed definition of obscenity would "virtually outlaw any expression of nonconformity" and "inhibit the serious artist." The Times of London found the whole report effective "as a barrage in a campaign" but not thorough, coherent or detached enough to be useful in sparking new legislation...
Died. Fritz Glarner, 73, Swiss-born artist whose "relational painting" derived from the style of Piet Mondrian; of a stroke; in Locarno, Switzerland. A disciple of Mondrian in Paris during the '20s, Glarner moved to the U.S. in 1936 and set about developing his own identity as a painter and muralist. Though he retained the stark primary colors used by his mentor, Glarner skewed the Mondrian rectangles in an attempt to make his work seem less static. He spent three decades in the U.S., then returned to Switzerland six years ago after being critically injured on the liner Michelangelo...
Though Fiedler was entertaining, he was, of course being foolish First. Tolstoy's faith in art was based in Christian humanism, in the belief that every man had basic principles which could be appealed to by the sincere and talented artist Fiedler, on the other hand hopes for some mass tribal evolution. And he misread even the processes by which an audience experiences television in order to buttress his argument. Do people care all that deeply about what they see on the tube? If they do aren't they first primed by commercial manipulators who bombard them with verbal publicity...
...plays with prejudices rather than on them. "Were they colored?" the police asked the elder Sanford about a gang of thieves in an early episode. "Yeah," he replied. "White." The old man, played by Redd Foxx, has none of Archie's anger. He is simply an engaging con artist who will resort to any ruse to keep his son from quitting the business and leaving home...
...Brown University graduate student, has given it a game try in a really promising short novel. His jokes are broader than Nabokov's and are not woven into the story with nearly the master's exquisite timing. But he is witty, and his conceit -making both the artist and his biographer small boys-is elastic enough to stretch the length of the book...