Word: clear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...weeks ago, Gordon was called before his interrogator. "It was made clear to me," he recalls, "that the case wouldn't be settled until I made certain admissions"-namely, that he had "insulted and slandered Chairman Mao" and that he "was in possession of political information." Two days after he made his "confession," the Gordons were heading for Hong Kong...
...garment in question is a stretch-nylon body stocking that covers everything but the head and hands of the wearer and sells for $9 to $14. "Covers" is an exaggeration, as the ads make clear: "No interruptions to mar the lovely line of you," and "Reveals what it covers." The obvious suggestion is that the wearer need not, indeed should not burden her body with such conventional and "confining" undergarments as brassieres, girdles, panties and hosiery...
Allowing for a bit of hyperbole, that much is clear from the show itself. Except for a few minimal sculptures, Pop brings Geldzahler's show to an abrupt end and, surprisingly, it takes its place comfortably enough as history. What has happened since 1965, the cutoff date Geldzahler chose for established talents, would be another show entirely, a free-for-all with kinetic and light sculptures, environments, photo-realists and cold figuratists, the shadowy, sensitive light works of Los Angeles artists, the foolish funny funk art of San Franciscans, and the esoteric conceptual fantasies of the young reactionaries...
...taking an idea to its logical, if sometimes totally irrational conclusion. As a result, their art achieved more than occasional grandeur. It was exciting even when it failed, providing a tradition that invites any young artist to try absolutely anything. Whether that is a good thing will not be clear until the Met is a few years into its second century...
...Hooker report's sobering implication that society has been grossly unfair to the homosexual is sure to stir controversy, and its recommendations are bound to be adopted only slowly. Still, the research makes clear that Americans can now recognize the diversity of homosexual life and understand that an undesirable handicap does not necessarily make everyone afflicted with it undesirable...