Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Design and is married to Jazz Saxophonist Joel Press, describes how she developed her unusual style of sculpture: "I was watching a friend upholster a couch and I got excited looking inside and seeing all the springs and workings. I thought I could use similar materials to make some big figures." One of her early efforts was a huge, whorelike Statue of Liberty reclining on a couch, done as a float for the Freedom Day Parade in Manhattan. "I liked her, but she was destroyed immediately by a band of Neo-Nazis," remembers Miss Leaf. "They tore her apart...
...plucked up to heaven by a man and woman sprawling across the top of the arch. Explains Miss Leaf: "If there was going to be another Messiah, it would appear in someone who would never expect it, like a waitress, and she would turn into a pig, a big pink pig." Why a pig? "Because maybe a pig is the image of our century." While everybody grins, including the pig lady herself, another man spits and jabs at her with a club, an allusion to last summer's Chicago police riot. At the last minute, Miss Leaf added...
Reveries by Night. There has been one big problem in appreciating Ryder's work: he painted with an utter disregard for basic technique. He piled paint layer upon layer, to thicknesses of a quarter of an inch, often returning to work on a canvas while it was still wet. He found it almost impossible to think of a painting as finished, frequently took back ones he had sold and com pletely reworked them. He called the process "ripening" and likened himself to an inchworm reaching out tentatively into space from the end of a leaf. "I am trying...
Speculation and Shift. Altogether, 1968 was a fairly disappointing year for blue-chip industrial shares. Propelled by political as well as economic events, the Dow-Jones average bounced erratically, but gained only 4.3% for the year. Broader-based indicators of Big Board securities rose about twice as much. The New York Exchange index of all 1,249 listed common stocks climbed 9.4% and Standard & Poor's index of 500 issues rose 7.7%. On the American Stock Exchange, a haven for low-priced and often volatile issues, prices soared an average...
...third largest of the nation's nine regional securities markets, after the Midwest and Pacific Coast exchanges. More than three-quarters of its annual 45-million-share volume comes from brokers outside Philadelphia. Most of that business involves stocks listed on the big New York exchanges. Says Wetherill: "No broker would do business with us when he could save his customer the 50 a share on the other regional exchanges...