Word: isn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with the natives, sipping Cutty Sark-and-milk, and philosophizing in typical Powell-ese. "Let's be sweet and walk together," he said last week. "Keep the faith." As to why he has not made some move to purge the contempt charges against him, Powell says: "My head isn't bloody, much less bowed...
Modular, faintly suggestive of children's blocks, Smith's and Smithson's sculptures seem like statements in the vocabulary of boxy, urban housing. Yet in accentuating the negative, they make symbolism out of skeletal form. "Art needs more thought and less manual dexterity," says Smithson. "Nothingness isn't negative-the drive to reach the moon is a preoccupation with desolate nothingness. But it's involved with the idea of exploration." Their search is to find poetry in emptiness...
...Restaurant-of-the-Month, never swings at the Racquet Club in Palm Springs. She doesn't play the tables at Vegas or pick up a cue in the billiard room of the Beverly Hills Daisy; where Frank Sinatra bides his time, she abides not. If she isn't at home, she is likely to be found with her four-year-old daughter at Hamburger Hamlet or at the Los Angeles Zoo or at a local art gallery. Her night on the town is the Bolshoi or a concert at the Hollywood Bowl...
...this silent, lonely, dark theater, and I told her, 'Julie, this is stolen time-time I can't really afford. So there can be no time for politeness, and you mustn't take offense, because there aren't any second chances in the theater. There isn't time to sit down and do the whole Actors' Studio bit. We have to start from the first line and go over the play line by line.' " And so they worked, Julie rehearsing, Hart cajoling, pleading, threatening. "You're not thinking," he would...
...Come along, Julian," the master criminal's mistress murmurs comfortingly when she finds the vile fellow sulking over an unsuccessful assassination. "Maybe we can find somebody to run over on the way home." The wackiest crack, however, is delivered by the beastly bodyguard. When somebody protests that it isn't nice to "kill a perfect stranger," the brute tolerantly replies: "Nobody's poifick...