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...values of pop art-which is essentially a mild, unrebellious comment on the commonplace made by picturing it without any pretense of taste or orthodox technical skill. It is nothing new to transform nonart materials into works of art; but seldom have artists been so willing to forgo the transforming. They may paint a soup can and enlarge or repeat it; but the can remains a can, designed by the Campbell Soup Co. In defense, Pop Artist Tom Wesselmann says, "Objects like Coke bottles have powers. Brand products are here to stay." Ten, 20 or 50 years ago, any artist...
...Muguette Fabris, 22, had gone to Bordeaux to practice a little solid (89-50-90*) geometry. The judges took one look at Muguette in a swimsuit and-zut! She was Miss France. Back at the Lycée, the principal had no head for figures, made Muguette promise to forgo makeup at school and to come to work by bus instead of her customary bicycle. Muguette was not overly concerned: "Movies? Well, if the right contract came along. You know, life in a provincial town is not always rosy...
...season, more than enough to fill the city's five miles of beaches, 1,200 hotels and boardinghouses and scores of nightclubs. Some vacationers went south because they could not afford a European trip- "conditions" being what they are. But most were working-class families determined not to forgo their one gala spree of the year...
...Millar from the novel by C.P. Snow, is set in the leather-chaired somnolence of a common room at Cambridge, and makes it crackle with the charges and countercharges of a courtroom trial. Dramatically, the play accumulates tension without generating passion. But for the theatergoer who is willing to forgo emotional nourishment, it provides a stimulating mental feast...
...keep matters in hand without the use of clubs or guns. One night last week, when 16 Negroes gathered before the city hall to pray and sing hymns, Pritchett angrily rushed to the scene. He was irritated, he explained, because he had been told that the Negroes would forgo a demonstration that evening so that he could observe his twelfth wedding anniversary at home in peace. The Negroes obligingly dispersed, and Pritchett went home to continue his family celebration...