Word: clay
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...programs are movies. Worse, they are seen only in black and white, and are not strictly first-run (last week's offerings included Frank Sinatra in The Detective). In earlier days, WHCT was more venturesome. It carried a 1963 Joan Baez concert live ($1.50) and the 1964 Clay-Liston fight ($3). That drew 63% of the clientele. There have been other signs of pay-TV appeal. Patients at a Hartford old folks' hospital who got their service free were so enthusiastic that they made a bed-to-bed collection and sent the proceeds to the station...
With technology as a new aesthetic all objects and materials can be art--not just oil on canvas or clay on armature. Within the art world itself wide-spread use of "found objects," like irons and mattresses, verifies this. And the post-Warhol men who make happenings, assemblages, and environments, like Segal and Kaprow, would embroider "everything can be art" on their coats of arms...
...Concerning Kennedy's arrival in Dallas, for example, Bishop writes: "This multiphrenic city sitting alone on a hot prairie like an oasis spouting a fountain of silver coins gave its elixir to John F. Kennedy." In the hospital, the body of Kennedy did not just lie there. "The clay of John F. Kennedy was cooling." When L.B.J. wanted to talk to Kenny O'Donnell and Larry...
...Clay Hollister...
...nightmare of man being destroyed by a creature of his own making has always been with us. The first robot in literature was the Golem, a clay man made by the High Rabbi Lev Ben Bezalel of Prague in the 16th century. Animated by a slip of paper bearing the name of God, it murdered the Rabbi when he made it work on the Sabbath. The Biblical analog is the Tower of Babel, the presumptuous construction that called down God's wrath on man. But the Golem and the Tower of Babel are myths. Computers are real...