Word: come
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mostly involving repeated arrests for drunkenness or vagrancy-is misleading. He is peaceful to the point of passivity. Most of Skid Row's crime statistics are due either to zealous police sweeping public drunks off the pavement, or to "hawks"-the area's name for predators who come in from the outside, frequently to relieve a drunkard of his freshly cashed welfare check. His lengthy arrest record, says Sociologist Wallace, can actually be construed as "a fairly stable adaptation [to] a society that is willing to support him under specified conditions...
...Anxiety. Something very much like a hunch also drives Elaine Sturtevant, a fair, fey and fortyish Manhattan divorcee who went to Paris last year with her two small daughters and may not find it safe to come back. For she practices a kind of art that has made her one of the less popular artists in Manhattan. Sturtevant's thing is line-for-line copies of virtually every top pop painter and sculptor. She has "done" Segal, Wesselmann, Oldenburg, Stella, Johns, Lichtenstein, Rosenquist and Warhol with such loving cunning and accomplished accuracy that she makes them all look slightly...
What will come after? Nobody knows. What the prevalence of "art for art's sake" creations mainly shows is that artists feel compelled to satirize the status quo. In this sense, the stage seems curiously akin to 1953. That was the year when Robert Rauschenberg set the stage for pop with his own contribution to the "art for art's sake" genre: erasing an Abstract Expressionist drawing by Willem de Kooning...
...about guys like Jerry the Booster, who distracts clerks by dropping his pants in department stores so his buddies can clean the racks of Hickey-Freeman 42-regulars, and about a barkeep named Mutchie, who sends notes to friends' funerals saying: "I am very sorry it had to come to this." But when Breslin graduated to writing his mood pieces about the day's biggest news events, from Selma to Saigon, he was often unbeatable. He has been called a male sob-sister, and wise guys belittle his Dick-and-Jane vocabulary, but he is not the dummy...
...Europe. While showing little interest in a gold price increase or other radical monetary reforms, Washington is pressing for the activation of the International Monetary Fund's "special drawing rights" as the best immediate way to expand the monetary reserves needed to finance world commerce. The SDKs will come into being after 67 of the IMF's 111 member nations approve. So far only 36 have done so, but enough new ratifications should come through to enable the IMF to create SDKs by year's end. The first installment will probably amount to about $2.5 billion, which...