Word: jacob
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cocktail Sales. Whether their work is polemical or not, most black artists feel that the art world is controlled by whites and still largely closed to them. True, such artists as Horace Pippin, Jacob Lawrence and Romare Bearden have been widely recognized on their merits. Moreover, despite the efforts of the newly zealous black historians, no neglected genius has been turned up. though figures like Robert Duncanson, Edward Bannister and Henry O. Tanner have been given refurbished status. The past lack of major black painters is not due to any inherent lack of artistic talent on the part of black...
...film focuses on the problems of Jacob Horner (Stanley Keach), an English instructor with an affinity for nonsense, whose initial problem is psychosomatic paralysis. Horner's form of noninvolvement is meant to be seen as a psychotic reaction produced by the ugliness of American life...
...mere gymnastic feat. Solarwind is different-not a confection gone slickly sour but a modish sci-fi convention pursued without rhyme or reason. In a cosmic mood, Arpino sends his dancers blasting around the stage to assorted flatulent noises-pings, creaks and suckings. The score, by Avant-Garde Composer Jacob Druckman, is entitled Animus III for Tape and Clarinet...
...this point, New York's Jacob Javits intervened. He had remarked that he was "only a modest Senator, and an attorney," but not a medical expert. Now Attorney Javits reached for the evidence and read aloud that it had been published by Mead, Johnson back in 1965, and Nelson had failed to mention that it is no longer being distributed. The so-called "official Government document," he found, was in fact a private publication recording the views expressed by many investigators at a seminar financed by the U.S. Public Health Service...
...pool. As you bask in the hot, healing waters, a gentleman technician offers cups of dietetic lemonade. Your poolmate, a balding man in his 50s, introduces himself. La Costa tones up such famous figures as Rod Steiger, Ambassador John Lodge, NBC President Julian Goodman. Gore Vidal, Kirk Douglas, Senator Jacob Javits, Sandy Koufax, President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz of Mexico-and you end up in the stew with a paint salesman from Poughkeepsie. "They really pamper you," he says, as a gentleman technician dries his back. "It's just one joy after another...