Word: downtowner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...allocated in equal shares to six subcommittees, whose chairmen would supervise its spending. Thus Powell himself could control only a piddling $50,000, which would hardly keep him in swimsuits. If nothing else, the cutback would surely curtail a mysterious "committee investigative task force" that operates out of a downtown federal building in Washington on projects so secret that only Powell seems to know what they are. He had requested $101,000 for this force alone...
...French embassy was smeared with ink and tar. and someone painted "Lobsters yes, De Gaulle no" on a downtown wall. Brazilian diplomats boycotted a dinner aboard the liner France when it docked at Rio, sales of French wines slumped, and Carnival revelers dressed as lobsters danced a new lobster samba. Inevitably, in newspaper cartoons o grande Carlos was depicted as a long-nosed lobster...
...paintings at Manhattan's Downtown Gallery this week range in subject from the comic to the sublime, but even the most light-hearted of them seem to carry a heavy secret. Whether involved in a child's game or in an ancient tragedy, the chunky figures appear lost in some timeless trance: no matter how much a part of a group they are, they are always solitary. The figures pray or weep, bend in joy or agony, play out roles in a cobbler's shop, or at the foot of the Cross. They all bear the same...
...knows more than most men about living out life alone: he has the private vision of one who was born deaf. In the past few years, his extraordinary talent has earned him recognition around his native Los Angeles; now he has been added to the prestigious stable of the Downtown Gallery, which represents such noted older artists as Ben Shahn, Abraham Rattner, Stuart Davis, William Zorach and Georgia O'Keeffe. Dealer Edith Halpert introduces her new artist with a ten-year retrospective, borrowed mostly from the collections of such varied celebrities as Joseph Hirshhorn and Actor Robert Preston...
...Government called three experts: Edith Halpert of the Downtown Gallery, Daniel Johnson of the Willard Gallery and Eugene Thaw of E. V. Thaw & Co. The most generous evaluation that they placed on any of the baroness' paintings was $3,000. The baroness had her own expert: Alexander Kirkland, who runs a gallery in Palm Beach, Fla., where he had been exhibiting the baroness' work (without making a single sale). He placed the value of the triptych paintings at $28,000 each...