Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Motherwell proved a fast learner. The great lesson "of what modern art is all about," he believes, was first stated by French Symbolist Poet Stéphane Mallarmé in 1864: "Paint not the thing, but the effect it produces." For the young Motherwell, the easiest way to set this down was by combining oil, gouache and pieces of torn paper. Today his elegantly signed collages-which often combine pieces of French Gauloises cigarette packages, an envelope from his English bookseller or a football ticket-sell for from $3,500 to $5,500, are considered by connoisseurs the most elegant...
...dead on arrival at Detroit's Receiving Hospital. While fighting off street-corner hoods, he had been stabbed in the back, and the knife blade had slit right through his descending aorta, the main artery that carries blood to the trunk and legs. He was losing blood so fast that his heart stopped beating while he was on the operating table. Though surgeons managed to sew up the aorta and got his heart pumping once more, seven months passed before Gormley left the hospital...
...Stores are selling all they can get-and in some cases letting go sets that they were saving for Christmas. RCA's David Sarnoff last week predicted that sales this year will hit 2,500,000. The TV-set and TV-tube makers cannot turn out sets fast enough to keep up with demand...
...clothing industry has fought hard to encourage this trend. In an epochal move, manufacturers jointly undertook a campaign to stress that clothes are too important to be bought only when a replacement is needed. They have to be careful, though, not to push new styling too far too fast; men are more conservative than women, and their styles change slowly. Through subtle changes made over long periods, the industry has shortened coats and sleeves, narrowed lapels and tapered trousers. Two of this year's heralded innovations are the shaped suit and the return of the double-breasted-but they...
Peering through the mayhem is Richard Lester, a director whose style perfectly fits the Beatles' humor--fast-moving, irreverent, surprisingly low key. Although no scene is more than a minute long, and the dialogue is always rapid, there's no tension, just excitement. Lester keeps you aware of the fun he's having in playing with colors, with camera angles, with special effects, and he keeps you interested not only in what the Beatles are going to do, but also in what he's going...