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ENGAGEMENT REVEALED. George Wallace, 61, former three-time Alabama Governor and independent presidential candidate; and Lisa Taylor, 32, country-and-western singer turned executive of a family-owned coal firm; in Jasper...
Despite its economic problems, the city has spent a great deal of money assembling an impressive collection of modern art. Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, and Rauschenberg filled a single long gallery spanning the width of an entire building last summer. One modern art exhibit at the Lehnbachaus sparked controversy for most of July and August...
There is quite a lot of "narrative" art, disconnected accumulations of words and images that owe something to Jasper Johns, something to James Rosenquist. The most conspicuous new practitioner is a Texan named Vernon Fisher, 37, the only artist represented in all three shows. But political content hardly appears at all. The sole artist concerned with it is an Englishman, Conrad Atkinson (Hirsh-horn), who makes ferocious indictments-by-assemblage over such issues as Northern Ireland and asbestos poisoning of workers. His accumulations of data-letters, text panels, photos of graffiti and so on-undergo very little aesthetic transformation...
...individuals highlighted in the exhibit include scientists Melvin Calvin, Margaret Mead, Linus Pauling, Simon Ramo, Jonas Salk and Charles Townes; designers Buckminster Fuller, Lawrence Halprin and George Nelson; composer John Cage; artists Romare Beardon, Judy Chicago, Jasper Johns and Roman Vishniac; and choreographer Merce Cunningham. In addition, the show examines the work of the team of seismologists, geologists, and oceanographers which developed the theory of plate tectonics...
...made too many concessions to A T & T in their rush to wrap up the case before the new President took office. Said William McGowan, chairman of MCI Telecommunications, which is battling Bell for the long-distance telephone market: "It sounds like a slap on the wrist." Added Herbert Jasper, Washington lobbyist for a group of telecommunications companies: "It appears to be a free ride...