Word: artists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Part of the change may be in the eye of the beholder-the nation, after two years, has simply got used to Nixon as President. But there is more to it than mere acclimatization. For one thing, the President acquired a new barber six months ago. This artist, Milton Pitts, 54, who calls himself "Washington's leading men's hair stylist," strives to give the presidential head "the natural sculptured look." He has gradually lowered Nixon's sideburns about half an inch and his neckline by an inch -not exactly an Abbie Hoffman do but slightly less...
Vibrant Impresario. Tyler's policy is to invite four artists a year to produce a suite of prints. Like a mustachioed impresario fussing over his stars, Tyler supplies his charges at Gemini with everything from Arches cover paper to limousines and sushi fish. His first catch was Josef Albers, and the list of his successors reads like a lexicon of the avantgarde. Tyler, as patron, also has his own rules and his own pride of craft. He explains: "Each man will stay about three weeks, doing the drawings and consulting while we're making proofs...
...insightful quotes, like Amedee Ozenfant's "The Romanticist has in him something of the Exhibitionist," and clippings of poems, like Yevtushenko's on the Kennedy assassination: "Loving freedom with bullets, you shoot at yourself, America!" It is also filled with thin-line sketches of astonishing virtuosity, reminiscent, like the artist, of illustrations in Edwardian children's books...
Loving. Set in John Cheever country-the wealthy suburbia of Fairfield County, Connecticut-this American film presents the dilemma of a financially insecure commercial artist unable to come to terms with either his wife or his mistress. Irvin Kershner, who directed from a screenplay by Don Devlin, has a terrific fell for the sterility of his settings and the dogged humanity of his characters. Even when being funny, the movie is underlined by that dim light we associate with the pain of three o'clock in the morning. The picture also has a brilliant climax involving closed-circuit television...
...Phases. The unifying thread of the book is the funeral at Manhattan's St. Patrick's, and the interminable train ride from New York to Washington, where Robert Kennedy was buried. "His life, in a way, was all aboard that funeral train," observes Artist William Walton. "All the phases: the people he had known, from school friends, family friends, college friends, his early political friends and associates, and nonfriends . . . people who had gotten woven into his life...