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...rave about his "artistic equilibrium," trace his lineage to Paul Klee, and dub him "the juggler of modern art." He was given a one-man show at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art in 1964, helped represent West Germany at the 1966 Venice Biennale. Last month his open cube of wire-works and quivering copper balls, Olymp, became one of the four purchase awards winners at the Guggenheim's international exhibition of sculpture in New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sculpture: Balancing Act | 1/19/1968 | See Source »

...ever. The State Department's leading exponent of a "hard line" in Asia. Assistant Secretary William P. Bundy, said Hanoi's firm offer was little more than a dangerous propaganda device full of bad intentions. Bundy seemed to feel that Trinh's statement was like an LSD sugar cube--if we grabbed at it, we might blow our cool for good. Bundy's less outspoken boss, Dean Rusk, was not as upset by Hanoi's offer. He said he thought Trinh's speech represented a "new formulation," but dumped his usual dose of verbal sewage water on hopes for peace...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tell Saigon Where To Go | 1/18/1968 | See Source »

...patient; passengers walk by her, but she doesn't give them a second look, this indicating Rooks' distinction from accepted social and physical norms. Cutting to New York, just prior to Harwick's plane trip to Paris, we see the Fugs playing, standing around a huge pile of sugar cubes arranged to form the word LSD. A Fug steps on the sugar, grinding the cubes into dust, and Harwick falls into the frame (his first appearance), desperately groping for an intact cube of acid. He is, we recognize, an addict. Effortlessly and economically, Rooks simultaneously establishes the character...

Author: By Tim Hunter, | Title: 'Chappaqua' | 11/29/1967 | See Source »

...that it was a work of art. "They didn't take it too serious," he says. But they did take special care to choose unscratched pieces of steel. In fact, they did such a good job that the next time Tony wanted a box, a six-foot cube that he named Die, "I just picked up the phone and ordered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sculpture: Master of the Monumentalists | 10/13/1967 | See Source »

Dramatic Travel. It is the uranium that gives the flechettes their impressive muscle. Cleansed of its fissionable isotopes U-235, the depleted uranium is safe to handle. Because it is one of the heaviest natural elements (a 1-ft. cube of uranium weighs 1,167 lbs.), even a tiny uranium flechette fired at high velocity from a gun has so much kinetic energy that it can penetrate a target at an angle as oblique...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Weapons: Magic Bullet | 10/6/1967 | See Source »

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