Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PHILIP C. CURTIS-Knoedler, 14 East 57th. "It's easy, in a slate like Arizona, for a painter to symbolize," explains Arizona Painter Curtis. "The trees, abandoned houses, ghost towns have always been a source of fascination for me." His oils-eerie scenes acted out in an atmosphere as hot and dry as Phoenix at noon-send spectators running for their Freudian primers. Through...
...toys are for all ages, and can be as ominous in their ease as fellow New Englander Robert Frost's poetry. Last week his bobbing mobile The Ghost and his sprawling stabile Guillotine for Eight met like stalactite and stalagmite in the great rotunda of Manhattan's Guggenheim Museum (see opposite page). Frank Lloyd Wright's architecture never had better tenants: a 361-piece retrospective that could equally well establish Calder as a wizard of the wind, a Wright Brothers' Rodin, or the greatest tinker of all time...
With rural areas pretty well covered, CATV companies are now turning to the cities. To overcome skyscraper ghost effects and provide the strong reception that good color TV requires, TelePrompTer has filed an application for a franchise to equip any of 625,000 Manhattan households with cable reception. If the idea succeeds in New York, it may spread to other cities. Indeed, cable TV companies optimistically foresee a system in which television will no longer depend on broadcast alone, but will be sent over a microwave-wire combination everywhere...
...hoped to save your excellent summary of the Warren report [Oct. 2], but I find that Artzybasheffs ghost is more than I can bear...
...marketing of power. Its first joint project will start shortly, when member companies begin construction of a 750,000-kw. plant near the Arizona-New Mexico-Colorado-Utah boundary known as the four corners. The plant will burn the low-grade coal still buried beneath many a nearby ghost town, but future WEST plants might also use oil, natural gas or, in water-parched Southern California, nuclear reactors that will convert salt water to fresh while they generate electricity. The associates' first president, Dick Walter Reeves, 61, head of the Public Service Co. of New Mexico, expects the scheme...