Word: judd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...JUDD FOR THE DEFENSE (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). "Tempest in a Texas Town," voted last year's Best TV Mystery by the Mystery Writers of America. Repeat...
Machine-Made Vision. The sculptor mining the modular vein who has attracted the most attention this season is Donald Judd, 39, known among minimal fans as the most severe and uncompromising of the "dumb box boys." For Judd, a box is a box is a box, and nothing more; free associations are forbidden. Judd's monumental boxes and series of boxes currently cram the warehouse-sized third floor of Manhattan's Whitney Museum in a one-man show dubbed "a chilling triumph" by partisans, and "pedestals in search of a nude" by less admiring observers...
Chilling is no overstatement, for Judd's works, commercially fabricated of Plexiglas, anodized aluminum, stainless steel Or galvanized iron have all the cosy warmth and intimacy of an assembly line or a bank vault. Still, the gallerygoers strolling among them seem to derive considerable visual satisfaction from the myriad reflections and subtler shadows cast by their repetitive surfaces. If they care to disobey the rules, moreover, and meditate on the symbolism of Judd's boxes, the possibilities are endless. What is a box, they say, if not a coffin, a house, a treasure chest? As for that series...
Damon Runyon's lively 1927 stories about Ruth Snyder and her boy friend, Henry Judd Gray, both accused of murdering her husband, included the information that "Mrs. Snyder and Gray have been 'hollering copper' on each other, as the boys say. That is, they have been telling." Did the reporter learn this from a prosecution source...
Buckley's enemies bring out the best in him. He is less interesting when he starts singing the praises of his friends such as Barry Goldwater, Senator John Tower, Everett Dirksen ("moving through the crowd like the eye of a hurricane, an oasis of calmness"), Walter Judd ("Is there anywhere a more impressive American?"). Of all of Buckley's hang-ups, two of the worst have been Moise Tshombe, whom Buckley thought the U.S. sold out, and Senator Thomas Dodd, whom Buckley thought the Senate sold short. "I, for one, announce," he inaccurately predicted, "the beginning...