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Acoustic Anarchy. In 1965, Baron was jolted awake every morning by a barrage of air compressors at a construction site near his Manhattan apartment. He decided to fight. "I found that there was no ordinance limiting the racket between 7:30 a.m. and 5 p.m.," he recalls. "Something had to be done about this acoustic anarchy." He left his job as manager of a Broadway play and by 1966 had established a volunteer organization called Citizens for a Quieter City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Crusader for Quiet | 12/5/1969 | See Source »

Most of the artists found their powers of concentration affected and experienced frustration in arresting the dream images that rapidly slide in from the subconscious. "I really can't draw any more," Bernhard Jager complained. "Everything begins to move on this picture. The ears of a wolf turn into a burning pine forest." Artist Gerhard Hoehme observed: "The paper in front of me turned into a room in which I became lost." Michael Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi watched his precise draftsmanship disintegrate into chaos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Painting Under LSD | 12/5/1969 | See Source »

...midst. But then it begins to look like a volcano, ejecting bright colors." Perhaps significantly, the abstractionists in the experiment showed far more resistance to mind expansion. Action Painter K. H. Sonderborg displayed few discernible effects, though he reported seeing thousands of strange little animal figures that he found impossible to draw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Painting Under LSD | 12/5/1969 | See Source »

Austrian Painter Ernst Fuchs finds a middle ground. He thinks that his experiments with mescaline and other drugs have opened an "aperture" in his consciousness that now enables him to experience the same kinds of perception via pure meditation. But his fellow Austrian, Friedrich Hundertwasser, found his own experience with drugs as a youth in Paris frightening, and is adamant in rejecting them. "Look at Venice," he says. "This city appears like a vision contrived under drug influence. Yet had its builders been drug eaters, they would have never managed the energy to build it. They would have merely dreamed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Painting Under LSD | 12/5/1969 | See Source »

...front is pulled loosely up and back into a topknot. Underneath, along with the remainder of the hair, can generally be found several ounces of wool twine or a nylon mesh cushion, the better to swell the structure to second-head proportions. Hanging down at strategic intervals (at the temples, around the ears, and down the back of the neck), are separate, curling tendrils of hair. The whole thing may look like the work of a bird who flunked nest building. Yet at $17.50 per neglect-job at Kenneth's Manhattan salon, the elegant lady can-and must-look...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: A Sweet Neglect | 12/5/1969 | See Source »

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