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...that is successful in project ing positive feelings about life," Olden burg maintains, "has got to be heavily erotic." So the kapok-stuffed blades of a soft blender dangle like pendulous breasts; a fireplug mimics a torso...
...need," says Oldenburg, "is for something to stick in my mind. Like Henry Miller's nose. It has a strange, puffy quality. Then it begins to work within a scheme of resemblances. The nose metamorphoses into a fireplug; the plug into a coin phone box; the phone into a car." Once, just to discover exactly what did happen to a banana's shape when it was being eaten, Oldenburg made five banana shapes out of canvas, filled them with plaster, peeled the "skin" and bit them all down to varying sizes. "I spit the plaster out," he says...
...Jesse H. Jones, former owner of the Houston Chronicle and F.D.R.'s wartime Secretary of Commerce. His Houston Endowment Inc. had laid out $7,300,000 for the travertine-faced structure that is the centerpiece for Houston's new cultural complex. No expense was spared. When a fireplug by the entrance created a jarring esthetic note, it was chrome-plated. And when Jesse T. Jones Jr., nephew of the publisher, handed Mayor Louie Welch a gold key to the hall, he said pointedly: "That key really works. Uncle Jesse liked things to work...
...love me, baaby?" he wailed, and from the 15,000 faithful in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden last week came the soulful chorus, "Yeah, baby, yeah." For one frenetic hour, Brown commanded the stage like a one-man riot. Stocky as a fireplug, hair teased into a luxuriant pompadour, he danced, preached, niugged, strutted and sang with a mounting intensity carefully calculated to inflame. Finishing one song, he turned his back and then suddenly spun around, grasped the microphone by the neck and fell to the floor moaning, "Please, please, please...
Died. William Bendix, 58, comic and character actor, whose fireplug face and concrete-mixer voice stole the show in more than 50 Hollywood productions (The Hairy Ape, The Babe Ruth Story) and on TV's The Life of Riley, a series about a dopey factory riveter that so tickled the viewers it ran for eight years, bringing Bendix some $3,000,000 in salary-which, as he put it, "isn't bad for a guy who was on relief in 1934"; of pneumonia; in Los Angeles...