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...Proun Room, Van Doesburg's project for a university hall, Schwitters' Merzbau, Kandinsky's music room, and so on. Nevelson's palace is of their company. Yet its motives are not didactic; they are closer to folk art, to the "ideal palace" made from junk by the French postman Cheval from 1879 to 1912, or the Watts Towers built by Simon Rodia in Los Angeles. Collection, repetition, unification: these are the elements of Nevelson's poetic but wholly sculptural sensibility, and this time they have produced a masterpiece...
...fervent feminists may prove equally unable to go back," he noted. He envied the women conventioneers - of whatever political persuasion - their stamina. "They do much better on less sleep and liquor than their male counterparts." And he was surprised to find that Gloria Steinem was "a self-confessed junk-food freak. When I interviewed her over dinner, her meal consisted entirely of a cup of coffee and a gargantuan strawberry sundae...
...Fosse's All That Jazz. With what sounds almost like resignation, he admits to being content. Friends say that Lucinda, a Puerto Rican who worked as a TV researcher, has brought a new stability to his life. After six weeks on a liquid protein diet, this former junk-food addict-"I still dream of Twinkies," he sighs-has even lost his famous baby fat. For the first time he is ready to play that "lean and hungry" hero-villain Cassius...
...contents of 400 long-abandoned safe-deposit boxes auctioned off last week in Worcester, Mass. The sale involved a total of 849 items-the leavings of Bay Staters who had died, moved away or had otherwise not touched their treasures for ten to 15 years. Aside from junk jewelry and silverware, the loot was a curious miscellany: a Mickey Mouse watch, three strips of lace, a cigar cutter, Confederate money, an old carburetor and an autographed program for a 1919 Rachmaninoff concert. Far from proving a love of lucre, the auction results suggest that Americans can be careless about money...
...Athanson: "You call that a sculpture? I could have done that." Residents condemned the boulders as "a public nuisance"; businessmen protested that they could become hiding places for muggers and targets for graffiti addicts. One citizen suggested the city return the rocks and consider his $99.95 offer for the junk in his basement, including "one used potty-chair, a tricycle with no handle bars, one broken ski, an old doorknob and six bags of leaves...