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DIED. CHARLES GORDONE, 70, playwright; of cancer; in College Station, Texas. Gordone became the first African-American playwright to win the Pulitzer Prize with the 1969 Broadway bow of No Place to Be Somebody. A portrait of schemers, dreamers and losers in a grungy Greenwich Village bar, it owed as much to the saloon drama of O'Neill and Saroyan as it did to the black theater renaissance of the sixties...
...every metal juncture on these pieces--even in the monumentally minimalistic "5 1/2" (1956). Stung by several critics' refusal to consider pieces created by industrial welding as art, Smith persistently defended his technique. The fancifully chaotic composition of "Bird" (1957) further evokes the spirit of an artist unwilling to bow to convention...
Smith's work is at its best with the 1960 "Doorway on Wheels." Another assemblage of found and manufactured elements arranged in a strikingly two-dimensional form, this piece recalls Louise Nevelson's monumental works. The work's visual center is not the titled egress, but rather the bow of diamond-forms and supports that it frames...
...going on here, because hunters manage to kill some 650,000 turkeys every year, but there's no question that turkeys, whose eyes bug out on each side of their head, have close to 360[-degree] vision, and their hearing is pretty good too. My Missouri friend was a bow hunter, which means he was more interested in hunting than eating. He said that you had to call a turkey to within 25 yards of where you were lying, camouflaged, with your bow at full draw, to have a chance of killing one with an arrow. This is not easy...
...route of DeWolfe to Bow to Quincy is very heavily traveled by students coming from the river houses to classes and libraries," he said...