Word: displays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...kinds of functional things, including toys, appliances and scientific equipment. The show represents the 130 best-designed items of 1967, selected from among 1,000 U.S. entries by Industrial Design, a magazine that has hitherto saluted the annual winners by publishing photographs. Now, with the objects themselves on display, it be comes even clearer where handsome designs are prevalent in daily life - and where they are conspicuously lacking...
...Charles de Gaulle opened the 10th Winter Olympic Games in Grenoble, France, last week, ABC-TV pulled off a display of space-age electronic wizardry that was right out of Star Trek. The dour visage of le grand Charles picked up by the color cameras was fed to a control unit at the Olympic stadium, beamed to ABC headquarters in Grenoble, relayed by cable to Paris, and then to the French satellite ground station at Plumeur-Bodou. There the video signal was converted into a radio signal, bounced off the Early Bird satellite hovering 22,300 miles over the Atlantic...
...directors from Fellini to Jean-Luc Godard. In recent years, Richter's unmoving pictures have also been gaining new attention, and they are featured in an exhibit of more than 80 Richter drawings, paintings, collages and films at Manhattan's Finch College Museum. Coupled with a smaller display at the Byron Gallery, the show provides a unique opportunity to see how, as the artist puts it, "film and painting overlap with modern art. Modern art gets its ultimate meaning in movement...
...treasures while maintaining the balance and often the ambiance of the original setting. But going public invites public scrutiny, sometimes with embarrassing results. For, while a private collector can airily point out his "Rembrandt" to a visitor with little risk of contradiction, once the work is placed on public display, a misattribution is no longer a private vanity but a public disservice...
...existence in Sartre and Camus, the guerrilla warfare against ossified language and the mass mind in lonesco, the bleak, alienated vision of Beckett, the sense of man eternally acting a role in Genet, and the use of the stage as a self-contained universe in Pinter. In a towering display of the actor's craft, Kenneth Haigh confers unbrooked, unhinged regality on the title character while coiling the inner man into a sentient ball or pain...