Word: ices
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...West Coast's retort. At Los Angeles' Century City, three young artists constructed a sculpture that disappeared slowly before the spectators' eyes, vanishing without a trace within 24 hours. The form: a 110-ft.-long, 15-ft.-wide, 22-in.-high labyrinth. The material: dry ice, shaped into blocks and costing $1,200, which was contributed by a subsidiary of Union Oil as part of an outdoor show of more permanent pieces...
...from turning a cold shoulder, the public responded so enthusiastically that last week the disappearing-environmentalists were summoned back for a return engagement. This time the artists built nine pyramids out of 20 tons of dry-ice blocks over a period of three days. By the time the last was up, the first had already evaporated from its original ziggurat perfection down to a jumble of tipsy marshmallow forms...
...esthetic experience by meandering between the smoking pylons of art. "What makes it so weird," said one visitor with a shiver of delight, "is that you can't see your feet through the vapor." "What makes it so wild," mused another, "is that a combination of art and ice ineluctably becomes arce...
...movie light since Antonioni. The 28-year-old son of a lawyer from Piacenza, Bellocchio won the Silver Ribbon, Italy's Oscar, with his very first effort, Fists in the Pocket (1965). His China Is Near (1966) won the special jury award at last summer's Ven ice Film Festival. Both films are now being released...
...ice also created bizarre scenes in the building's ruins Wednesday, as workers found desks encased in solid blocks of ice. One instructor said he spent the afternoon in the basement repository chipping away at pieces of ice to find his books and cards