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...Herculean Appleseed. Any Di Suvero show is a nightmare of logistics, thanks to the size of his work. The I-beams of his 1967 construction now on loan to Minneapolis, Are Years What? (For Marianne Moore), have a spread of 50 ft. and a rise of 40 - the height of a four-story building. When the Pasadena Museum temporarily allowed Di Suvero to rig a 35-ft. steel sculpture on its grounds, the only site it could spare was a corner of the parking lot; apparently the trustees feared it would chew up their lawns. The installation bills included...
Thus Di Suvero, struggling to produce sculptures that no museum or gallery can readily house, has become a kind of herculean Johnny Appleseed. scattering work wherever he can find space or means to put it: two, for instance, are now in a field outside Chicago. His sculpture presents a real cultural paradox: it is created from scrounged materials with little or no financial backing, and at the same time it is unsalably monumental...
LENNY (61). Lenny Bruce had his unappetizing characteristics, but taking sex and scatology as his texts, he hurled thunderbolts of laughter at moral and social hypocrisy, and enlarged the scope of freedom. In the title role, Cliff Gorman gives a Herculean performance...
...night without fear of their being stolen, of a military establishment whose $150-a-month generals uncomplainingly accepted a sizable pay cut in 1969. Maoist thought, some of the travelers reported, has done away with corruption, enabled the deaf to regain their hearing, and inspired peasants to complete herculean engineering projects with tools no more sophisticated than their bare hands. "No one who has not lived here before," writes Canadian Diplomat Chester Ronning, "can fully appreciate the almost miraculous transformation...
...emotional coin that the U.S. must eventually expend for the war in Viet Nam. General Creighton Abrams, the U.S. commander in Viet Nam, felt it necessary last week to warn against any form of "laxity" among the remaining G.I.s as the American pullout continues. Said Abrams: "It requires a herculean effort to keep alertness up." President Nixon acknowledges that heroin addiction in the military has become a serious problem; he is about to announce an ambitious federal program to combat the narcotics crisis through a new Government agency. It would confront the national drug problem generally, and would have specific...