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Esquire again gets the prize for unusual choices. In 1968 the magazine recruited Playwright Jean Genet, Novelist William Burroughs, Satirist Terry Southern and Poet Allen Ginsberg. This time the Esquire group is to include Guenrikh Borovik, 43, former U.S. correspondent for the Soviet news agency Novosti and writer for Izvestia...
Perversity. With two other painters, Edward Paschke and Jim Nutt, this imagery of possession enters a horrific level of sour humor. Nutt is the more playful. His drawing appears to derive equally from Dick Tracy strips (the thin, grotesque, saber-edged line) and back-of-the-comic ads for hemorrhoid...
Such "alphanumeric" displays are not entirely new. Since the 1960s, cathode ray tubes (CRTs) similar to those in home TV sets have been used to perform such varied chores as giving stock information in brokerage offices, confirming reservations at distant hotels, and even showing air traffic patterns over crowded airports...
In 1970, Honeywell Chairman James Binger announced that the firm would buy G.E.'s sagging computer division for notes and stock worth about $500 million. Honeywell got G.E. plants in the U.S. and abroad, including the profitless French subsidiary, Machines Bull. The acquisition doubled Honeywell's annual revenues...
Mostly it was nonpolitical fun, with innumerable flea-market stalls, 350 restaurant-cafes, a huge motorcycle rally, ice follies, fireworks, the Paris Opera Ballet and the Soviet Navy Chorus. The festival also featured what may well have been the year's best pop concert, with appearances by The Soft...