Word: kuhn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first break in the bridge's 2-in. by 12-in. Ibar suspension cables apparently came-at ten minutes to 5 p.m.-on the upriver, Ohio side. To Dick Kuhn, 18, a gas-station attendant, it sounded like a shotgun volley: "I thought some nuts were dusting ducks under the bridge." Then the upstream side of the roadway tilted in surreal slow motion, spilling sparks from a parted power cable into the dusk and an estimated 60 vehicles onto the weedgrown riverbank and into the 6-m.p.h. current beneath. "It looked like a snake wiggling across the water...
...letter to Editor-in-Chief Hedley Donovan, A.B.A. President Edward W. Kuhn said: "The competition for awards this year attracted the second largest number of entries in the nine-year history of this competition, so you have every right to be proud." We are indeed...
...KUHN San Francisco...
...Juxtapositions of paintings also suggest hitherto unexpected correspondences. In the decade 1925 through 1934 are works by such divergent artists as that arcane, Swiss-born Bauhaus prof, Paul Klee, the Chicago anatomist of decay, Ivan Albright, the tragic expressionist Arshile Gorky, and the U.S.'s clown-painting Walt Kuhn. In paintings executed within a three-year span, each depicts man masked in dreadful isolation...
Gorky blurs bodies off from the flat, pastry-oval visages of The Artist and His Mother, a memory portrait that bridges from surrealism to the beginnings of abstract expressionism. Klee mimes a four-footed animal in his calligraphic Mask of Fear. Kuhn creates another kind of mask-that of the silent, sad clown-and makes it a vision of man turned into useless performer, while Albright excoriates the self in his wrinkly "And God Created Man in His Own Image." Unrelated by style or influence, each artist nonetheless portrays man in the early Depression years as a desperate creature searching...