Word: barneys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have sufficient means to guarantee a festival without a highrisk of incidents." White said. Barney Frank, White's executive assistant, added that police officials from Boston, Newton and Brookline had expressed "very strong feelings against the festival because of the question of protection...
...smaller owners fear that the larger ones, like Restaurant Associates, which runs Zum Zum, the Treadway Inn, and Barney's, may simply board up and pay their rent until their leases expire. Jacobs imagines that "we could have a skid row here in one or two years...
...known as U.S. Secretary of the Interior Walter Hickel. The outspoken Cabinet member stopped off at the Crow reservation in Montana's Bighorn mountain area to be inducted into the tribe. The title is only honorary; the Crows' real pipe carrier is Henry Old Coyote, whose brother, Barney Old Coyote, translated the proceedings, which were conducted in Crow. Responded Conservationist Hickel, using the white man's tongue: "You have learned to live with nature without abusing...
...Manhattan art gathering really got off the ground until the courtly figure with the walrus mustache and steel-rimmed monocle appeared and someone announced, as someone always did, "Barney's here." Barney was Barnett Newman, abstract painter, self-proclaimed anarchist, celebrated raconteur, the compleat iconoclast. Before his death in Manhattan this month at the age of 65, he provided the most obvious visual link between the generation that produced Abstract Expressionism and the generation that turned to minimal and color-field painting...
...Abstract Expressionism he was indeed something of a threat, removing, as Sculptor Tony Smith has observed, "the last vestiges of pictorial approach." By the early '60s, though, a generation of younger artists was involved with massive scale, expansive color, maximizing a few minimal elements. They could look at Barney's painting and appreciate that he had already anticipated the same problems. To scores of minimal and color-field painters, he became a kind of father-confessor...