Word: felted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...schools, stopped garbage collection, endangered the public safety. The city itself sometimes seems more malignant enemy than hospitable friend. Looking at the sunset from a Los Angeles freeway-refracted through smog and windshield-Los Angeles Times Columnist Jack Smith wondered what a man from an earlier century might have felt if he had sat beside him in the automobile: "A rational man, like Dr. Johnson, must surely see that the species had at last given up its glimmer of sanity and was annihilating itself in this magnificent, psychotic Götterdammerung...
Possibly, the Flemish tiler's son felt that he was only a servant, like Gilles, eavesdropping on his masters. Conceivably, he realized that any artist, like any comedian, must retain a sense of detachment. Very probably, he sensed that the fabulous beau monde was spending far beyond its means, that the entire stage-set would soon be struck, and that it was up to him to capture both its gaiety and its unreality. Certainly he knew that his own gifts were fleeting. For the last ten years of his life, he knew he had tuberculosis. Gilles, painted just...
...captain-elect felt that the first several games this year gave him a great deal of needed confidence and helped him feel looser and play better each week thereafter. His improvement caused coach Tom Stephenson to remark. "John was an unknown quantity at the beginning of the year, but now he's one of the top defensive ends in the league...
...cool that they did it, but they went a little too far," one B.U. student said yesterday. He felt that the most questionable feature was the cartoon: "An Essay on Eating a Banana In Public," which employed the banana as a phallic symbol. "All the jocks checked out the issue to find out who all the nude stude girls were," he added...
When confronted by the locked door of his fifth floor studio I originally felt that somehow Harvard's sculptor ought to belong to me; I ought to be able to watch as well as learn from him. But after tripping over and disarranging at least five of his works in process, and after being disturbed at the interview with Mirko by a stray artsy busybody, it's easy to see why Mirko doesn't hold open house. His jungle of massive wood beams from razed houses (works-to-be), metal shears, styrofoam, paints, glues, saws and over 100 sculptures...