Word: cunningham
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...Exhibitionist. Director Elliott, 44, who took over when Charles Cunningham moved on to the Art Institute of Chicago three years ago, is proud of the basic collection for which the museum is famed-a small but distinguished selection of baroque paintings, classical bronzes, Meissen porcelain, 17th and 18th century furniture, antique firearms. But even before the shutdown, he set energetically to work to bring the Atheneum more up to date in art history. Conspicuously displayed in the new galleries and elsewhere were some of his acquisitions: Tony Smith's Amaryllis, Cezanne's Portrait of a Child, an important...
Meanwhile, his 18-year marriage to Dancer Carolyn Brown of the Merce Cunningham company seems to be enough proof of his conviction that "art is the fruit of human relationship." And vice versa. To Brown, what counts about art is that it changes people's lives. "Art observes the condition of the world and asks how we can make things relate better," he says. "What I value most is the way people relate to each other. Life today is about transition, not monuments. I don't want to make monuments. I want to be here...
STEPHEN J. CUNNINGHAM JR. Blacksburg...
...Nikos, the young scholar who takes Zorba with him to Crete to operate an abandoned lignite mine, was played by Alan Bates with a pale, perplexed intellectuality that was a perfect foil to Quinn's animal magnetism. In this musical's stunted version of the part, John Cunningham acts like a graduate-school grind...
Ferried to the Essex by helicopter, the three heavily bearded astronauts walked unsteadily, obviously weary after their long confinement. But NASA doctors reported that despite colds, loss of weight (Schirra 41 Ibs., Cunningham 8, Eisele 10), and muscles weakened by inactivity, the three space travelers were in good health -and in better humor than they had been for most of the week. The irritability that they had displayed during exchanges with ground controllers, said the doctors, was a natural consequence of long confinement, a rather humdrum flight and troublesome head colds. NASA's Paul Haney had another explanation: "Something...