Word: cool
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cool, Baby." In Manhattan last week, one prospective purchaser, after approaching only four likely-looking types in Washington Square and handing over a few dollars, had a sugar cube laced with LSD. The person he bought it from had never even seen him before. Explained the buyer: "It's simple. All you do is go up to a hip-looking type and ask, 'Where can I get a cube?' More often than not, the guy knows, and if you don't look like a cop, will tell you. The usual advice from the seller...
...Nobody really likes this new art," confesses one of its kindest critics, Barbara Rose, who is married to a maker of cool geometric paintings, Frank Stella. "For one thing," she explains, "it is not very lovable. It is uningratiating, unsentimental, unbiographical and not open to interpretation. If you don't like it at first glance, chances are you never will, because there is no more to it than what you have already seen...
...creating their own academy of cool, they have produced a spartan art, aggressive and sometimes playful in its stark shapes. The viewer seems to be asked to overcome the chilly look of their bleak morphology, cloying pastel colorism and inert gigantism. Impersonal, almost deliberately dull, such objects require the maximum from the observer, offer the minimum in return. And if the viewer does not care to make the effort, he can well conclude that less is not always more...
This time Detroit played it cool...
...first French-language film, Director Vittorio De Sica updates his vocabulary but views the lively young set through a mist of weary Old World romanticism. The plot loses its cool at the outset by dwelling on the miracle of love at first sight between Castelnuovo and a shy medical student, played by Christine Delaroche, a movie newcomer in the Susan Strasberg-Geraldine Chaplin tradition. Shortly, boy gets girl, girl gets pregnant, boy gets nervous. The rest of their time is spent agonizing over an imminent abortion while the camera strives to fill every pause with poetry. Young World...