Word: dying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...assorted officials and took in an estimated $20 million. But all too many U.S. abortionists are dangerous defrocked doctors-alcoholics, drug addicts, sexual perverts-or worse, bungling amateurs who don't hesitate to finish a sloppy job by tossing clients off tenement roofs or dismembering those who die. Equally sobering are the slum women who cannot afford even amateurs and do it themselves with hatpins, coat hangers and putrid soap solutions, which are often followed by lethal infection. Most desolate of all, perhaps, are those who cannot and dare not abort. Among the poor, who still know little about...
...late U.S. Sculptor-Welder David Smith or to Britain's Richard Smith, whose shaped canvases won the grand prize at the current Sao Paulo Bienal. -Not all fabricators do such good work. A duplicate of Die was ordered from a Los Angeles firm for last spring's County Museum sculpture survey show, but its surface is badly scratched and, for lack of proper interior bracing, it has an oddly flimsy look...
...Die by Telephone. Until two years ago, Tony Smith was self-confessedly an artistic wallflower. He was known, if at all, in Manhattan art circles as a minor architect and Sunday painter of geometric abstractions, a semiprofessional Irishman (his great-grandparents were from the land of Joyce) whose recitals of Finnegans Wake livened up artists' parties. Then, almost overnight, Smith blossomed...
...work of art. "They didn't take it too serious," he says. But they did take special care to choose unscratched pieces of steel. In fact, they did such a good job that the next time Tony wanted a box, a six-foot cube that he named Die, "I just picked up the phone and ordered...
...question is: When will Bobby run? Most pundits figure on 1972 as the likeliest date, but not Shannon. Johnson could lose in 1968, forcing Bobby to challenge a well-entrenched Republican in 1972, or he could die in office, leaving Hubert Humphrey in his place with a powerful claim on the next nomination. As Shannon makes clear, the heir apparent may find considerable difficulty in trying to bring about the Kennedy Restoration...