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...expressionists won no enthusiasm. A huge Mathieu went for a paltry $5,250. Hartigan hit $3,000 but had a low of $700; Okada hit $2,000, Marca-Relli $3,000. The real surprise of the evening was a quiet, 1952 still life of ceramic ware, plain as a cupboard and less abstract than a Cezanne, by 73-year-old Giorgio Morandi. Winning...
JERRY OKIMOTO-Krasner, 1061 Madison Ave. at 80th. Okimoto has outmaneuvered Mondrian: his colorful plane geometry is also mobile. Sliding panels like cupboard doors permit a change of composition and color match; each painting comes with its own framed miniature showing suggested arrangements. Through...
With no scholarship and little money, she entered a kind of determined vagrancy, carrying an air mattress with her. "I would turn up at even the remotest friend's place and ask for floor space," she says. "A cupboard. Anything. God, it was awful, moving around with my little mat." She worked at odd, wearying places in the summer, such as a Schweppes factory ("Ugh"), where she grew to hate the taste of bitter lemon. Then BBC-TV picked her up for a science fiction serial called A Is for Andromeda. Movies have weaned her away from television...
Come Blow Your Horn is a comedy of props. Frank Sinatra's Manhattan apartment, which seems to have been decorated on a dare by a Playboy Club Bunny, has more doors than Mother Hubbard's cupboard, all with the wrong people on the other side. And for telephones Frank has a red one, a black one, a Princess, an antique French, a Swedish one-piece, and a mobile unit in the Buick, all with the wrong people on the other end of the line...
...seemed. There should have been $16.2 million in Congolese francs originally deposited in the bank to support the currency of Moise Tshombe's Katanga-and U.N. officials hoped to turn it over to the Congo government for reconstruction. But when they got there, Tshombe's cupboard was bare...