Word: cunningham
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Such heavy appliance makers as General Electric and Frigidaire. stuck with big inventories, have cut prices 5% to 12%. To increase sales while cutting costs, S. S. Kresge Co. (749 variety stores) has switched to supermarket check-out counters in 431 of its stores. Explains Kresge President Harry B. Cunningham: "We have accepted the idea of smaller profit margins even though we don't like it. The only answer is greater volume...
Eyewash. In Leominster. Mass., Robert J. Cunningham was sentenced to 30 days in the House of Correction after disobeying a traffic signal, squirting an irate cop in the face with a water pistol...
...Leotard read a newspaper while marking time to the wail of the trombone by flipping a garbage can lid with her foot. The men at the bridge tables popped the champagne bottle, set off the alarm clock, threw streamers and lighted sparklers. "Fifteen!" cried Cage, and Sneakers (Dancer Merce Cunningham) rushed forth petulantly snipping at his hair with scissors while the pianist (David Tudor) polished the piano strings with a buffer and the tuba player (Don Butterfield) stripped to the waist, slipped on a jacket and had a drink...
...Symbols. Choreographer Cunningham, 38, learned his first fancy steps from an oldtime vaudeville performer who taught him a sailor's hornpipe in a special soft-shoe version. That was back home in Centralia, Wash., where Cunningham grew up, the son of a country lawyer. In those days he used to tap-dance at the local Grange Hall, eventually graduated to a summer session at California's Mills College, where he met Martha Graham and agreed to join her company. In the Graham years he danced male leads in such works as Letter to the World and Appalachian Spring...
...Cunningham professes to be utterly bewildered by complaints that his work is obscurely symbolic. "Symbols," says he, "don't interest me. You see a chair strapped on my back. Can't we just say, 'How strange...