Word: helmeted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...consumer culture" -everything from hamburgers named "Big Daddy" to "the proliferation of venality" to newspapers that "congratulate you during a blackout for not starting a riot." Grump even invents some excesses of its own: a game called "skull diving," for example, in which a man wearing a football helmet topped by a large spring bounces on his head out of the window onto the street. The instant the skull strikes the pavement is known as the "Moment of Migraine...
...Clark, shifting down for the Curva Grande at Monza or roaring onto the Mulsanne Straight at Le Mans. Few automakers play on this fancy so successfully as Milan's Alfa-Romeo. An ad for the sporty Giulia GT model, for instance, shows a father strapping on a crash helmet while his wife and child prepare to climb in. "The family car that wins races," proclaims the ad. Thanks to its fast cars and fanciful advertising, Alfa-Romeo is pulling ahead in the Italian auto market. The company, while a distant second to mass-producing Fiat, last year turned...
Died. Leonard Heinrich, 65, armor expert at Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art, who in 1941, after a Pentagon call for something better than the antiquated "tin hat" helmet, designed the low-slung M-4 "steel pot," used in World War II, Korea and now in Viet Nam; of a heart attack; in Clarksville...
...marijuana parties," he said, "are exaggerated. If we even tried, the cops might swoop down and bust it up. They harass us, they spread lies and call us bad seeds." Then last May he hauled down the Sacramento Angels' emblem-a death's-head wearing a helmet and wings-and departed for Oakland to seek "a better life," free from "police harassment...
...with all the presence of living people. This is simply because he casts his figures directly from human models. Now at New York's Sidney Janis Gallery, his Costume Party differs from his previous work in its tinted surface. Two reclining silver figures masquerade as Antony (with Roman helmet and G.I. gunbelt) and Cleopatra (with painted Egyptian necklace). In aloof stances around them are a lumpy, black, helmeted "Pussy Galore-type," a red, catlike woman with a yellow-feathered mask, and a green-robed priest. They posture like demented inmates in a psychosexual drama, dancers in a group-therapy...