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...first guest Master Builder Buckminster Fuller (TIME cover, Jan. 10, 1964). "I'm only 72," said Fuller. "You don't look a day over 70," said Cavett. When the talk got more cosmic, Fuller suggested that in future centuries women would revert to wearing fig leaves. Cavett asked: "What is it about fig leaves. Do they have some peculiar clinging power?" Fuller: "They are relatively large and durable . . ." Cavett: "And washable and 90% Dacron...
...paintings, for all their bizarre imagery, are alive with color. De Kooning's intricate palette combines lemon, lime, fig, plum, raspberry, apricot and apple-blossom pink. Flooding the canvas is the clear country light that streams through his $200,000 studio, a structure that has gone through almost as many alterations as one of his paintings...
...thing about football experts: they do have to keep an open mind. In the preseason college polls, sportswriters fig ured this year to be much like last...
...market, dormant since the late 1950s, is thriving. In July and August, stock prices went up an average 19.8%. Un employment, probably the most sensitive problem for Germans since the Wirtschaftswunder all but erased it, dropped almost 5% in August, to 1.7% of the labor force, still an uneasy fig ure compared with the 1% of August 1966, but way down from a peak of 3.1% last February...
Clandestine Journals. Mindful of the purges of the past, most Russian authors don their own fig leaf and precensor their works before submitting them to the state-owned publishing houses. The more courageous writers have been smuggling their works out to the West, or publishing them in a growing number of crudely printed journals that circulate sub rosa and have an avid readership. Young Leningrad and Moscow writers organized a semisecret association called SMOG (an acronym for youth, courage, image and depth). They not only contribute to such clandestine publications as Phoenix, Sphinx, Kolokol (Bell) and Tetradi (Notebooks), but have...