Word: creators
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...these adventures were, in fact, initiated by the same Robert Morris, 37, a Buster Keaton-faced Kansas Citian who teaches at Manhattan's Hunter College. He is renowned in avant-garde circles as both the creator of bafflingly simple minimal sculptures and the author of still more baffling tracts in their defense. What seems to bind together Morris' dance, sculpture and writing is one fact: he is apparently dedicated to the proposition that clarity is square...
Died. Harold L. Gray, 74, creator of little Orphan Annie, the oldest babe (44) in the comic-strip woods; of cancer; in San Diego, Calif. Moonfaced and round-eyed, gold of hair and heart sweet little Annie lived in a nether world of town bullies and murderous Russian spies, karate chops and megaton bombs. And for those readers who followed Annie's antics in some 400 papers and sometimes wondered how a nice girl could get into all that trouble. Harold Gray had a ready answer: "Sweetness and light-who the hell wants it? Murder, rape and arson. That...
...DISNEY VERSION, by Richard Schickel. Within a carefully prepared social, cultural and artistic context, Cinema Critic Schickel sees the late creator of Mickey Mouse and Disneyland as embodying the best and worst traits of the hard-charging entrepreneur...
Died. Rudolph Dirks, 91, German-born artist and creator of those comic-strip delinquents The Katzenjammer Kids; in Manhattan. Starting with the old New York Journal in 1897, Dirks was the first to use balloons to enclose dialogue, first to plot a story in consecutive panels, and one of the first to use color. Today his strip (now known as The Captain and the Kids and drawn by his son John) is syndicated in 96 U.S. and 20 foreign papers...
...Alice Street. Australian-born Margaret Dodd has created a rococo ceramic line of miniature cars, ranging from a Volkswagen microbus to a 1937 La Salle. David Gilhooly, 25, molds dyspeptic hippos, crocodiles and warthogs that possess much of the pudgy charm of their 6-ft. 5-in. 250-lb. creator...