Word: jacketing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...although aptness of thought was. The vogue for primitive art has led some sculptors to making fetishes. Edward Kienholz, 37, assembles objects from Grandmother's Victorian parlor and makes them into a wild and woolly revulsion called The Four Bears, which is composed, or decomposed, of a life jacket, a night table, and the extremities of a stuffed bear (whose sawed-off head nuzzles into a broken goldfish bowl). The human figure, when it appears, seems almost a wry joke. William King, 39, for instance, makes 7-ft. figures out of burlap and metal that are raucous commentaries...
...Entry when they saw two strange youths enter the building. "We thought they were Yalies," Gerhart said. "They were obviously drunk." A few minutes later, however, one of the youths reappeared with a portable T.V. in his hand and an L.P. record and some shirts sticking out of his jacket...
There, the son of a South Dakota druggist toured the university school of pharmacy, donned a white pharmacist's jacket to pose for pictures, and scrawled on a prescription pad thrust into his hand by an autograph-hunting student the words "Vote Democratic...
...DAVID HOCKNEY, 27, looks as improbable as a figure in one of his own paintings. His fastback hair is peroxide blond, his eyes peep owlishly through black spectacles, and occasionally he sports a gold-lamé dinner jacket. Yorkshire-born Hockney's first one-man show in Manhattan was a sellout when it opened last week. His painting, a poetic blend of childish innocence and sophisticated whimsicality, is often dominated by an edgy displacement of figures in space. His bite is sharp in 16 etchings for The Rake's Progress, a series on his adventures in Manhattan, inspired...
...Sennett, looking at a hotel-lobby set, remarked that "we need some gags here," then turned to Chaplin. "Put on a comedy makeup. Anything will do." On the way to the wardrobe, Chaplin improvised the tight jacket, baggy pants and big shoes, added a small mustache for age. "I had no idea of the character. But the moment I was dressed, the clothes and the makeup made me feel the person he was. By the time I walked onto the stage he was fully born." Within two years Chaplin was making $10,000 a week...