Word: finches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...damaging the party, and it's a contemptible thing to do," said one, "but not unexpected." Nixon himself was mostly silent. He fished briefly in Nassau, held strategy meetings in his Fifth Avenue apartment, gave a talk at his daughter Patricia's graduation from Manhattan's Finch College. So certain is he that he has the nomination in hand that he plans virtually to ignore Rockefeller, reasoning that any response would only give the Governor a bigger target. "We've gotten where we are without using the politics of confrontation," said one Nixonite...
...FINCH COLLEGE...
...idea behind the wreckage? Very simply that destruction can be beautiful. The thesis, as propounded in a provocative exhibit currently at Manhattan's Finch College Museum of Art, unaccountably fails to note the Dadaists, who introduced purposeful mangling into art half a century ago. "There is a great negative work of destruction to be accomplished," ran the 1918 Zurich manifesto. "We must sweep and clean." But the Finch exhibition compensates by showing how large a role destruction has come to play in the work of contemporary artists...
...face from the past popped briefly into view as Carole Tregoff, 30, sentenced to life imprisonment seven years ago for the murder of her lover's wife, Barbara Jean Finch, was denied parole in California in her first hearing after becoming eligible. Dr. R. Bernard Finch, also serving a life term, gets his first hearing next month, and it is thought likely that he will get the same answer. Next time might be different. Carole can try again in 14 months, said the parole board chairman, and she will "in all likelihood" be released...
...picture medium has long been acknowledged by directors from Fellini to Jean-Luc Godard. In recent years, Richter's unmoving pictures have also been gaining new attention, and they are featured in an exhibit of more than 80 Richter drawings, paintings, collages and films at Manhattan's Finch College Museum. Coupled with a smaller display at the Byron Gallery, the show provides a unique opportunity to see how, as the artist puts it, "film and painting overlap with modern art. Modern art gets its ultimate meaning in movement...