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...tour of Chicago's top half-dozen dazzling collections shows, a new generation of collectors, many of whom are self-made millionaires, are brashly pitting their taste and understanding of today's baffling art trends against the judgment of the future and backing their hunches to the hilt. Nothing is too optical, poptical or far out to be in their homes (see following color portfolio...
...looser interpretation of the accords might avoid part of this mess, but to the chagrin of the Americans, the Indians, as ICC chairmen, have applied the unanimity provisions to the hilt. Until last week there was some doubt that the ICC would agree to the Cambodian and American plan entrusting it with surveillance of Cambodia's border. The Indians felt approval had to be unanimous and to secure Polish support, engineered a compromise which drastically limits the ICC role to investigating "specific complaints" after the fact...
Museum staged its "Primary Structures" show, with Free Ride in its entry court. Minimal art was officially launched-and so was Tony Smith. As a movement, minimal art seemed out to prove to the hilt Architect Mies van der Rohe's dictum: less is more. Many of the objects were simply boxes, beams of steel or lines of bricks. Any figurative suggestions were banned. So was any sign of the craftsman's personal touch: whether large or small, the objects were commercially constructed, color was applied with a spray gun. The aim seemed to be to assault...
...bottom half of his output. No matter what approach one brings to the work, there is a shift of tone between the first four acts and the fifth. The material for a black-comedy interpretation is undeniably present in the text; when it is tapped to the hilt, though, the ines-capable gap now becomes a gulf...
Died. Norwood R. Hanson, 42, Yale philosophy professor, onetime Marine fighter pilot and full-time individualist, whose own philosophy of life was that "it is very short and should be lived to the hilt," a proposition he assiduously followed by buying himself a 500-m.p.h. brute of a war-surplus F-8-F Bearcat, in which he buzzed the Yale Bowl and roared aloft in fantastic aerobatics, sometimes before the enthralled crowds at air shows, more often just for the pure, unadulterated hell of it; when his Bearcat plowed into a hill 15 miles from Cortland...