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The bell for the first round had barely sounded when Clay quickly banged a right off Listen's ear and went hippity-hopping around the ring, effortlessly slipping Sonny's ponderous punches. Clay hung his arms at his sides; Liston attached his arches to the canvas. The pursuit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prizefighting: Theater of the Absurd | 6/4/1965 | See Source »

Square in the Eye. After exploring the lower depths of drug addiction in The Connection, and splashing a dramatic canvas with jesting surrealistic damnation in The Apple, Playwright Jack Gelber now fires a stream of satirical tracer bullets into contemporary marriage, careerism, the worshipful cults of surgery and psychoanalysis, and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Intellectual Twister | 5/28/1965 | See Source »

It was a damn good thing they held the fight (?) in Lewiston, Me. If it had been in the Garden the fans would have ripped the place apart, seat by seat. As it was, the bewildered thousands who watched on four large television screens as the Big Bear kamikazed to...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CLAY KO'S LIST ON IN ONE MINUTE TO KEEP TITLE | 5/26/1965 | See Source »

A shape is usually differentiated from the surface of the canvas by the line enclosing the shape. A black line or a black blotch on a white surface creates the illusion of "relief," just as surely as a seated figure seems separate from the picture plane. The painters of the...

Author: By Robert E. Abrams, | Title: 3 Modern American Painters | 4/30/1965 | See Source »

Noland's Mach 2 (and all of Stella's pictures) illustrates Fried's second key "formal issue," the growing dependence of the shape of the composition and the shape of the canvas in the surface unity. The edge of the canvas is one of the limits (not boundaries) of the...

Author: By Robert E. Abrams, | Title: 3 Modern American Painters | 4/30/1965 | See Source »

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