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...smorgasbord attracts some of the strangest night creatures ever to adorn a modern city. They range from nattily dressed black pimps in high heels to gaudily painted transvestites to the "Christmas-tree man," whose head, coat, shut and pants are festooned with tinsel and trinkets. Snaking stealthily through this Brueghelian scene in search of likely prey are a host of Manhattan's pickpockets, strong-arm muggers, and flimflam artists, as well as an occasional rapist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICAN SCENE: Big Eye on the Great White Way | 12/31/1973 | See Source »

...other hand, Marguerite Zorach spent three years embroidering in Brueghelian detail and enormous panorama of the whole John D. Rockefeller Family at summer play. And Kokoschka gave us a whole multicolored symbolic tradition behind the central figure of Thomas Masaryk...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Famous Personality Meets Famous Artist at ICA Exhibit | 7/20/1961 | See Source »

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