Word: benning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...once painted such social-realist subjects as "unemployed Negroes, crippled war veterans and the ubiquitous workers with open blue workshirts and necks wider than their heads." Hughes says, "In fact, he never painted such pictures. Either Wolfe is making them up or he cannot distinguish between Franz Kline and Ben Shahn...
...survey course your man Hughes took included only one line about Kline (probably "Franz Kline -20th-cent. Am. abstract expressionist"). It's no doubt news to Hughes, but Kline went through a period of realism, including social realism. This is a painting by Franz Kline (not Ben Shahn) called Ex-Servicemen and the Unemployed (1941). As your man says, "One example will do for all." I'm afraid that leaves us with just one elementary howler: the one named Robert Hughes...
Volpone. If all this Americana is beginning to stick in your throat, get away from it all and go see this classic satire by Shakespeare's old drinking buddy Ben Jonson Jonson lets his venom loose on greed a timeless subject that's usually good for a chortie or two. There's a character named Sir Politic Wouldbe. Presented by the Public Theater outdoors under the stars by the Charles at 1175 Soldiers Field Road in Auston. Tomorrow and Saturday at 8:30, tickets a reasonable one book...
...good things about this operation is that any competent orthopedic surgeon can do it without much problem. It should bring tremendous relief to thousands of crippled persons." Waugh's patients share his enthusiasm for the ankle, which costs $375, plus the cost of the operation. Ben Lujan, 35, a Los Angeles insurance salesman whose right ankle was immobilized after four operations to correct an old athletic injury, thought he would have to give up sports before he underwent an implant operation. "Letting Waugh put in the ankle was the best decision I ever made," he says. Lujan has reason...
...abstract painter, was dutifully cranking out paintings of unemployed Negroes, crippled war veterans and the ubiquitous workers with open blue workshirts and necks wider than their heads." In fact, he never painted such pictures. Either Wolfe is making them up, or he cannot distinguish between Franz Kline and Ben Shahn...