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BILLY APPLE, 30, a New Zealander (real name: Barrie Bates) who works in Manhattan, believes "neon is the purest, hippest color in the world; Day-glo phosphorescent paint looks 1929-ish next to it." In Auckland, he wanted to be an engineer, now carefully varies the diameter of his neon tubes to produce different hues. Apple turned to art and working in a paint factory, he contracted dermatitis and a lasting dislike for turpentine. Even before he arrived at London's Royal College of Art, he says, he found his solution in electric colors. While experimenting with them, Apple...
CACTUS FLOWER. France's humor, like its wine, travels well, since it is usually about a universal subject, sex. With Abe Burrows at the helm, this farce about a rouéish dentist whose idea of honesty is to tell his mistress he's married when he's not, has made a successful crossing. Lauren Bacall and Barry Nelson are on board...
...necessity, Amsterdam has learned to work 72 hours without sleep. Last summer he drove across the U.S. with out stopping to rest- twice. He is a part-time poet, playwright and novelist; he is equally versed in poker, tennis, two foreign languages (French, Span ish), and he has mastered the arts of advocacy from the Supreme Court to the police courts of Mississippi. "He is," says one federal judge, "the most dazzling person I have ever met in my entire life...
...Some 16 ft. high at the tallest point, the two pieces represent the rounded rump and upright torso of a semireclining figure. Typically Moore-ish, she abstractly lounges in the reflecting pool, mingling the domestic grace of a nude in her bath with the powerful, primitive presence of a goddess disturbed from sleep by Leonard Bernstein. Manhattan's mightiest piece of modern sculpture was wrestled into place pretty much the way marbles were muscled into place in Michelangelo's day. Grunting workmen wedged the huge metallic shapes onto rollers, eased them down wood beams, hoisted them upright with...
...Kremlin banquet last week, Russia's Premier Aleksei Kosygin noted that it had been 33 years since a Turk ish head of government had last visited the Soviet Union. Turkey's Premier Suat Hayri Urguplu obligingly replied that he would not try to analyze "the critical period of distrust in our rela tions," since it was now over with. He added, "We are very pleased to be wit nesses to the gradual and confident de velopment of mutual understanding." Though filled with diplomatic cliches, the speeches did reflect the cautious new warmth in Soviet-Turkish relations that...