Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...failed. France accepted the vacuum calmly, fascinated by the details of the transition, watching and waiting to see what would happen next. Interim President Alain Poher, a quiet, reassuring man, contributed to the calm as he moved swiftly and decisively to ensure against chaos (see box...
...tendency of his left arm to mirror the movements of his right. But even by professional standards, his clear, straightforward performances were adequate; by any other standards, they were remarkable. He got five curtain calls, plus a scattering of cheers from some of his patients, who had rented a box...
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This approach has made him, among other things, a founding father of that singularly obdurate style of sculpture known as Minimal art. In 1961, when De Maria was still a neophyte artist, he built two plain wood boxes. They differed from later Minimal artists' boxes primarily by being open and filled with wood blocks. De Maria intended the spectator to wonder obscurely whether or not he ought to shift the blocks from one box to the other...
...suit their own tastes. Avant-garde collectors began to buy De Ma ria's work. He was soon able to have them made up in steel rather than wood, and the games became more diabolical. His 1965 Instrument for La Monte Young looks like an innocent, slender metal box with a ball in it. But De Maria designed it with microphones at either end, which-in theory at least-could be hooked up to an amplifying system. Thus the "ping" of the ball would be amplified 50 times, and the viewer-listener who wanted to roll the ball back...