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...Manhattan's Durlacher Bros. Gallery, Tooker's eight latest paintings show that he is now using less spacious vistas, concentrating on shallow scenes that he calls "bas-reliefs." The themes that concern him are loneliness, racialism, death and youth. Lunch shows people packed closely at a Chock Full O'Nuts-style counter, munching in their respective dream worlds. Landscape with Figures shows haggard young people crouched in a huge honeycomb, and is "my way of protesting the situation kids are in now. I feel sorry for them with the draft, the pressures to conform...
Slightly larger than the Digest in size, Sputnik contains many pages of color reproductions. The monthly is also chock full of advertisements for Soviet products ranging from caviar to hand-woven rugs to Moskvich automobiles, and it welcomes advertising from abroad. All in all, Sputnik is an uninhibited pitch to U.S. tourists to come and spend their money in Russia...
...scared to death last year," said the blondish 115-pound sophomore, leaning forward from the couch in his chock-full living room in Winthrop House...
Politics Ahead? One of Robinson's most interesting roles is that of budding Republican politician. Two years ago, he quit his $50,000-a-year vice-presidency of the Chock Full O' Nuts restaurant chain to help Governor Nelson Rockefeller in his bid for the presidential nomination. Today Rockefeller has five private telephone lines in his office-one of which runs to the office of Robinson, who is his special assistant for community relations, on Rocky's personal payroll. Many of his associates believe that not business but politics will be the major future pursuit of Jack...
...River estate. At Olana (thought to be a corruption of the Arabic meaning "our place on high"), Church once again spoke superbly for his age. An eclectic marvel combining elements of Italian villa, Gothic revival, Ruskinian Venetian, French mansard, the mansion stands amid 327 acres of woods and meadow, chock-full of Oriental rugs, Thonet chairs, Tiffany glass and Persian tiles...