Word: box
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seemed perfectly valid to me," says Oldenburg today. "A kind of identification with earth, a recognition that earth is worth looking at, like sculpture. Taking the earth out of the ground, you are left with a cube, a nice geometric piece like Tony Smith's box, while the mound we excavated was a ground-up cube. We had a negative and positive cube-a conceptual thing." To most people, of course, a hole in the ground remains a hole in the ground. Who would ever think of it as a negative cube? Only a conceptual artist like Claes Oldenburg...
...football. For ten silent minutes, the Lions prepare for a preseason exhibition game with the St. Louis Cardinals. With the unsmiling dignity of bullfighters, the players in the dressing room tape up their scarred knees and ribs, drop their false teeth and rings into a trainer's cigar box, suddenly smash their shoulder pads in explosive bursts against a tile wall. The game itself is a vivid swirl of colors and curses, as the sweating players pound out their fury against the enemy, then sit alone, gasping and retching on the bench. When Alda final ly takes the field...
Released in the U.S. in August, Helga has been doing remarkably good business. According to Variety, it has been rivaling The Boston Strangler and Paper Lion as a box-office draw in Baltimore, while compiling big grosses in other cities across the country. The reason for its success may well be the leering quality of the ads ("Parents: because of certain revealing scenes . . . we suggest you see Helga first!!!") rather than the sterling quality of the plot, a simplistic, sun-filled narrative of wedded bliss. The highlight of Helga is the birth of a baby, shot straight on in gaseous...
Having filled the press box, the Harvard Sports Information Office started seating the visiting dignitaries on the press box roof until the Building and Grounds department forced it to stop for safety reasons...
...crowd of about 50 students had gathered outside Lehman when Russell S. Carr, manager of Dudley House Dining Hall, jostled Rossman, kicked his placard down the stairs, and ordered him off University property. (Harvard rules forbid vending on campus). When Rossman refused to withdraw, Carr attempted to confiscate his box of about a dozen yogurt cartoons. Rossman demanded remuneration, and Carr retreated to call the University police...