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Princeton Senior Michael E. Smith, son of a fiber and burlap importer and no kin to the other Michael Smith, was selected as a Rhodes scholar at Ox ford for the next two years. Smith, like his namesake, had attended Darien public schools. He went on to the Hill School and Princeton, where he was president of his class three years running, and is now chairman of the Undergraduate Council. Smith is majoring in English and was first-string center on Princeton's undefeated football team...
...plaster Eisenhower in a real Jeep, and the art world cheers. For in today's sculpture, both traditional subject matter and traditional techniques have gone by the board. Where once marble and bronze held sway, sculpture is now made of plastics, automobile fenders, even fur, carpeting and burlap. In place of the commemorative bust, the symbolic nude or heroic grouping, there are now polyester broads, overstuffed light switches, 3-D inside-out doughnuts, stuffed-leather totems, and well-welded remnants of the new Iron Age. The definition of sculpture has broadened until it has become an Everyman...
...composed, or decomposed, of a life jacket, a night table, and the extremities of a stuffed bear (whose sawed-off head nuzzles into a broken goldfish bowl). The human figure, when it appears, seems almost a wry joke. William King, 39, for instance, makes 7-ft. figures out of burlap and metal that are raucous commentaries on the self-pride of mankind. Richard A. Miller, 42, casts a conventional bronze nude. But he does it three times in the exquisite feminine gait clearly following Eadweard Muybridge's sequence photo experiments of the 1880s of a walking nude. Frank Gallo...
Last season King's bronzes bore the imprint of burlap, which left his witty compositions wearing a woven look. This time he leaves out the bronze, just drapes the burlap over aluminum tubing frames. The gawkish, gangling figures-some of them ceiling-tall-would be funny sacks indeed if they didn't look so sad. Through...
Bags & Tea. In an industrial complex near Dacca, East Pakistan, some 20,-000 Adamjee workers annually produce 70 million burlap bags and 90 million square yards of cloth to be used in products as diverse as automobile seats and jute suits. Nearby, Adamjee has just opened a new factory that will ensure even greater use of Pakistan's jute crop by producing particle board out of jute stems, providing a low-cost wood substitute for lumber-poor Pakistan. He is also almost single-handedly diversifying Pakistan's industry, using jute profits to build a $2.1 million cotton mill...