Word: fornia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...striving for ultimate solutions, painters are continually testing the outermost bounds of perception. Artists from Russian Suprematist Kasimir Malevitch to Jasper Johns have turned out white-on-white paintings; Ad Reinhardt experimented with black on black. Latest and farthest-out researcher is Cali fornia's Robert Irwin, 39, who has developed pictures composed of light on light. Each painting consists of a white aluminum disk, sprayed at the edges with a subtle blush of blue, pink or grey. Mounted 15 or 20 inches from the wall, the disks are lit by four small spotlights, which cast phantasmal shadows...
...president of the University of California takes his final exam every month," said Clark Kerr to a group of reporters last week. "I've taken lots of them and passed. This time I didn't." Indeed not. By a vote of 14 to 8, Cali fornia's board of regents had just de cided to dismiss Kerr after eight years as head of the nation's largest university...
...George Gipp in Knute Rockne-All American, he expired exhorting the team to greater glory. So indelibly was Reagan type-cast as the Great Loser that when Movie Magnate Jack Warner, his longtime employer, was first apprised of the actor's ambition to run for Governor of Cali fornia, he protested: "No, Jimmy Stewart for Governor. Ronald Reagan for Best Friend...
...latest Vietnik demonstration on the campus of the University of Cali fornia at Berkeley was a boring bust...
...brother, paternalistic government," has refused to rule out support from the far-right wing by declaring: "I am not going to submit a loyalty oath to anyone who votes for me." But Reagan, calling himself a "citizen-politician" and pushing the theme of a "creative society" for Cali fornia, also preaches that government must do something about problems like smog and unemployment, acknowledges that such programs as social security and medicare are here to stay. Anyway, as Reagan sees it, the main energies of California's Republicans need to be used come November "to retire Pat Brown," the deceptively...