Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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April has been a big month in the life of Alice May Brock, 28. She met her husband in April (1961) and left him in April (1968). She opened a small Stockbridge, Mass., restaurant in April (1966) and closed it in April (1967). She was hired for the movies in April (1968), as the nominal leading lady (a professional actress played her role) in the Arlo Guthrie hit, Alice's Restaurant. She can look forward to still another big April (1970)-when she pays her income...
...iconoclasm, Alice hews to a couple of basic rules for her cookery. For one: "You have to have one really big pot, something you can boil macaroni and rice in, cook corn-on-cob in, wash your hair in, wash your dog in. Get one that's big enough so that a mop will fit." For another: "Wine and liquor are great for cooking, and also for the cook. In fact, more important for the cook than for the cooking." Thus armed, pot and potted, Alice's disciples are advised merely to improvise and advertise. "If you tell...
...headlines of the day and gamble that the people they attract will come to the theater precisely because their consciences are on the alert. There is nothing easier than to preach to the already converted. For any but a guilt-collecting audience, most of these plays rate a big B for Boredom. There is no moral suasion in crude hack work that substitutes lapel-grabbing diatribes for scrupulous dramatic craftsmanship. A poor play does not become a good play simply because the playwright's heart is in the right place...
Snarled by Washington's red tape, many a big-time businessman seeks a big-time lawyer with political connections. Some of the country's most successful lawyers routinely charge high fees for making use of know-who as well as know-how. But can the courts enforce the bargain...
Joseph Cornell, in a rejection of the big, the bold, the conventionally beautiful, cultivated a secret garden of everyday artifacts. The melancholy strain resurfaces in George Segal's Gas Station and Andy Warhol's photomontage of an electric chair. Even in a painting like Barnett Newman's Anna's Light, for all the persuasive warmth in which it wraps the spectator, nothing can alter the fact that there is only emptiness on Newman's horizon...