Word: ft
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Joanna at his side, the gentle old man passed his 90th birthday at his home in West Redding, Conn. Edward Steichen, dean of the world's professional photographers, told a New York Times reporter what he has been doing. Mainly, he has been photographing a tree-a 20-ft. shadblow-in every phase of foliation for a color movie he is making. All that remains is to record his "friend" in a storm. "I freely admit that I'm in love with that little tree," he said. "I want the storm to buffet her, but I hope...
...Just being there, just standing there, is enough, even if he doesn't do anything at all." The way U.C.L.A. Coach John Wooden sized up his 7-ft. 1⅜ in. center, Lew Alcindor. was decidedly academic. In three seasons of college basketball, Lew scored 2,325 points, snagged 1,367 rebounds and led U.C.L.A. to three straight N.C.A.A. championships. Each year he was a unanimous All-American choice; twice he was named Player of the Year. The foundering American Basketball Association reportedly offered him $1,000,000-to play for any A.B.A. team of his choosing...
...strip joints are half empty. There are fewer suckers to buy endless rounds of watered-down drinks (at $2.50 a shot) for B-girls who deliver only promises, promises. Such famed attractions as Ronnie Bell and Her Twin Liberty Bells, who work the Villanova Show Bar, and 6-ft. 6-in. Kitty, a few doors down at Club Troc, have trouble piling up bar tabs. Some club owners complain that today's movies, which are consistently more erotic than any cabaret act, are keeping customers away. While the Block has the reputation of being one of the safest places...
...time to leave for the ball, and no matter how she tried, Monaco's Princess Grace could not get into the royal Rolls-Royce without destroying her 2-ft-high headdress. What to do? His Highness Prince Rainier simply ordered a truck, the couple settled onto its carpeted floor, and they chugged off to a Dîner de Têtes at the newly decorated Salon des Amériques in the Monte Carlo Casino. Naturally, the Princess was the center of attention in the towering-12-lb. headdress, constructed of gold wire with gilded latticework decorated with...
...cavernous fourth story of Manhattan's Whitney Museum, with its stark slate floors and 17-ft. ceilings, can seem as empty and remote as an abandoned temple. A-architecture, it is a demanding frame, diminishing the trivial but magnificently enhancing the heroic. Currently, frame and subject seem superbly conjoined in a display of 46 huge, brilliantly colored canvases by Helen Frankenthaler. There, on the impassive walls, color gardens of imaginary flowers bloom with subtle petals of mauve, maroon, crimson, orange, cinnamon. There are stately, bold, blaring rectangles of cherry and apricot, leaping palegold fires, whistling blue sails of form...