Word: eying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Civil rights have come so far in Atlanta that no one bats an eye any more when Negroes are served side by side with whites at Krystal restaurants, a chain that sells 100 hamburgers all over town. Yet only 17 months ago, Connecticut College Coed Mardon Walker, 18, was considered such a menace when she joined a sit-in at a Krystal counter that she was arrested for trespass and hauled before Fulton County's terrible-tempered Judge Durward...
Marvin stalked in, put a long, cold eye on Torn, then abruptly barked an ad-lib: "NOW!" Torn was so shaken he dropped his pistol. "No matter how fast they are," analyzed Marvin, as if it were all real, "when you've got a white eye for a guy, it really gets them...
...painting than are wood, nails, turpentine, oil and fabric." The man who said that is Pop Artist Robert Rauschenberg, but Schwitters would have thoroughly approved. Whether he would have been altogether at home with current pop art excesses is another question. Pop art seems to cock a mocking eye at the present affluent society by enshrining such shibboleths as soup cans and commercial-art clichés. Schwitters' goal was more angry. "One can shout out through refuse," he once wrote. "Merz was like an image of the revolution within me, not as it was, but as it should...
...there is as yet no master plan. Simon says that an objective "is being worked out. It is going to be something complex. We are struggling with the definition." Translated, that means that Hunt is going to keep on growing, that Norton Simon will continue to cast his acquisitive eye on companies as well as on paintings?and that what comes of it all will be, in its own way, as rare and distinctive in the world of business as a Titus is in the world...
Simon is a cautious and secretive man who jealously guards his own privacy and, believing that he can function more effectively out of the public eye, has become known as a mysterious operator in both the business and art worlds. Such privacy, however, is increasingly hard for him to maintain. He has been deluged by a flood of requests and offers since the London sale of Titus, including thousands of pleas for handouts, dozens of propositions from art pushers, and an offer from an Englishwoman to sell him a 150-year-old pub. By dint of his business acumen...