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...architectural terms toward non-architectural (or at least non-functional) ends has become popular among some contemporary artists and architects. Alice Aycock's drawings of imaginary cities, the current popularity of architectural drawings as art in themselves, and the revival of decorative facades in post-modern architecture are all part of a new interest in the nature of architectural forms as entities in themselves. Miss offers clever explorations of perspective and, through visual illusions, calls attention to the exact nature of ordinary forms. What her works lack is an overt sense of personal and emotional involvement on the part...
...with the usual conventions of sculpture: surrealism, mixed with primitivist nostalgia, is its presiding spirit. Donna Dennis' large-scale model of a frame house−swollen doll's quarters, too small to function as a building−is one example of the syndrome, and another is Alice Aycock's 24-ft.-long construction of arches, ladders and drumlike wooden wheels, whose title (The Happy Birthday Day Coronation Piece) sounds as portentous as the piece looks. This kind of lumberyard Piranesi is simply too big for its boots...
With its movable, spring-loaded hooks, the prosthesis fitted onto the stump of Dan Aycock's left arm two years ago was a substantial improvement over the ugly iron claw of earlier days. But the artificial arm still had a serious deficiency. Because Aycock, 38, who lost his arm in a textile-mill accident, was unable to tell how much pressure he was exerting on anything he was trying to pick up or use, he risked breaking the gauges and other delicate items that he handled on the job in a Louisburg, N.C., automobile agency. Now Aycock...
...poll taken just after the President's TV talk, 58% of the respondents said that there was little difference between the corruption of the Nixon Administration and that of other Administrations in the last 25 years. People who were queried last week voiced similar viewpoints. Said Mrs. James Aycock, a Gastonia, N.C., housewife: "If we got rid of all the shady people in Washington, who'd be left to run the Government...