Word: junks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...range of emotions. His Soft Telephone, its mouthpiece dangling, its coin box regurgitating, is a sad sack in shiny black vinyl. A Soft Typewriter, its pearly Plexiglas keys hopelessly entangled, collapses into its shell with the mortification of a machine that suddenly finds itself ready for IBM's junk heap. Other objects in 22 materials along with some drawings. Through...
...coral islands and reefs, 215 of them inhabited, and they are not quite real. Auld Lang Syne used to be the national anthem,*the Mother Hubbard is the prescribed dress for women, and the primary means of transportation are outriggers and baggalas, which resemble a cross between a Chinese junk and a Spanish galleon. Crime in the Maldives (rhymes with bald wives) is virtually unknown, and once a year most of the islands' 90,000 Moslems try to perform an act of national service, such as whitewashing a government building. But last week the idyllic little islands were reverberating...
RICHARD STANKIEWICZ-Stable, 33 East 74th. Dada takes the credit, but the ability to look at trash and find something of esthetic value begins with children. As a child, Stankiewicz played in a foundry dump; today he leads the sculptors who make assemblages of junk. Scavenging in scrapyards, rusting and welding the iron and steel he finds, he makes figures and abstractions. Says he: "I take something already degenerating, discarded, and then I make something beautiful of it. It should hit people over the head and make them ask, 'What is beauty?' " Through April...
...deliveryman shot his way free, but he and the gang's ringleaders were arrested later. > In late 1962, agents got wind of a pair of brothers who were peddling heroin in New York-one taking orders in his East Harlem clothing and toy store, the other delivering the "junk" in his taxicab. An undercover agent made a buy of 102 gm. of heroin for $2,000. Later, both brothers were arrested, and 442 gr. of heroin were found in the taxicab...
...hope the new director tears into his new job and dissects away the junk...