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...Whitney. The most splendid "unofficial" sculpture is a veritable New Jerusalem of junk and old furniture sheathed in gold and silver foil, the Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations Millennium General Assembly, begun in 1950 in a Washington garage by a black janitor named James Hampton, and left unfinished on his death in 1964. It was meant for Christ at his Second Coming and may well be the finest work of visionary religious art produced by an American...
Died. Sidney E. Rolfe, 54, economist, who was among the first to argue for the now widely accepted monetary policy of floating international exchange rates; of cancer; in East Hampton...
...seems farfetched, but this is a documentary. Grey Gardens, a new cinema vérité creation of the Maysles brothers (Gimme Shelter, Salesman), concerns the dilapidated lives of Edith Beale, 79, and her daughter Edie, 56. Both women live in East Hampton, Long Island, performing some dizzy charade out of The Madwoman of Chaillot. Grey Gardens, the crumbling house they inhabit, is overrun by raccoons, squirrels and other woodland creatures. The two women live mostly in one room, where the beds .are covered with cans of cat food, the floors ankle-deep in garbage. Occasionally a handyman named Jerry...
...Beale and Edie are respectively the aunt and first cousin of Jacqueline Onassis, and so a certain notoriety has attached itself to their situation. The town fathers of East Hampton tried to have them evicted from Grey Gardens on the grounds-richly demonstrated in the film - that the house is a menace to health. The Beales fought a well-publicized battle and stayed, although this fight is not the subject of the film. It is difficult to ascertain what the subject of the film really is, or the reason it was made. The Maysles brothers have al ways been inveterate...
Joel S. Levine Hampton...