Word: downtowners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...avant-garde art movement has ever won such instant recognition-and evoked such instant outrage-as did Abstract Expressionism, the movement that sprang from the lofts of downtown Manhattan and the studios at the far tip of Long Island in the turbulent years after World War II. Its trademark was a photograph of Jackson Pollock, intently swirling skeins of paint from a stick onto a canvas laid flat on a floor. "The most powerful painter in contemporary America," declared Critic Clement Greenberg. "Chaos . . . wallpaper . . . an elaborate if meaningless tangle of cordage and smears," complained the more conventional commentators...
TIME'S first office in Saigon was a cramped hotel room. TIME correspondents, in fact, continued to operate mainly out of hotel rooms until May of 1966. Then Bureau Chief Frank McCulloch, now head of LIFE'S Washington bureau, rented a villa in the city's downtown district-a convenient if not commodious structure located between the Presidential Palace and the new American embassy. The two-story, whitewashed building is devoted mostly to office space. During the 1968 Tet offensive, however, correspondents, Vietnamese employees and most of their families moved into the TIME compound...
...already choosing a planning board to see to it that "none of these parties end after just a few token drinks. I want them to run as long as there's a crowd there to have fun." To house the parties, he recently purchased an office building near downtown Dallas and enough nearby land to provide an adequate parking...
...study probed several promising sources of Federal aid, and also devised a way of decreasing the embarrassing disparity between school budgets in the richer suburbs and those in downtown Cleveland...
...main ties to C&W is that many of the songs seem fixed in a rural atmosphere. Rolling downtown with a five dollar bill to show your girl a thing or two, or getting hung-up in New Orleans on a chick with "cold, evil eyes" are nothing but country...