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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...though doctors insisted that he would be crippled for life, Di Suvero was back to rigging sculptures within a few years. Besides his will power, the young artists also admired his early, committed opposition to the Viet Nam War. Thus in 1966 he designed and helped construct the Artists' Tower of Protest in Los Angeles. Granted the quality of his work and the warmth of its first reception, one might have guessed that his career through the 1960s would become that of a cultural superstar...
...years ago by Maurice Tuchman, the museum's 34-year-old senior curator. His idea was to persuade U.S. firms to place their technical resources and a bit of their cash at the disposal of a group of artists in order to give those artists a chance to construct ambitious works beyond the technological limits of their own studios. A total of 76 artists were introduced to a list of companies that ranged from Kaiser Steel to Ampex, from General Electric to Disneyland. Reactions to the proposed matings ranged from disdain to alarm. But eventually some 20 projects were...
...Pentagon awarded Grumman a contract to build 722 of the planes, figuring to pay $11.5 million for each of them, or $8.3 billion for the lot. But last April, a Grumman official formally announced to Navy headquarters that it had become "commercially impracticable" for his company to construct more than the 38 planes that it is contractually committed to build. By the Pentagon's estimate, the real costs of producing each of the remaining planes in the order would be anywhere from $1 million to $3 million more than the contract price-a staggering total of $684 million...
...realized the promises of unmuzzled creative vision. The films of Arthur Penn. Sam Peckinpah and Stanley Kubrick honestly reflected surrounding chaos. Even if The Wild Bunch, 2001 or Little Big Man finally emphasized-through the criticism of portrayed societies-viable standards of intelligence and honor by which man could construct a sane world, they were at base level iconoclastic, determined to shatter set cultural conventions and destroy them utterly...
...collect as much as $1.2 billion, but others were doubtful. Says one top Manhattan developer: "Some of the parcels are good income producers and should be snapped up by institutional investors. Others have value only to those who are prepared to spend millions to buy out existing leases and construct new buildings...