Word: lange
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...well as experts from the colonies Broderick Crawford and Johnny Mathis. After they had observed all the forms parading across the red-carpeted stage of the Lyceum ballroom, they decided that once again, Miss United Kingdom was obviously Miss World. Regal (5 ft. 8 in., 37-24-37) Lesley Lang ley, 21, also obeyed the traditions by weeping prettily. "As there was a British winner last year," she gasped, "I did not think I should be chosen because there might be allegations of favoritism." And sure enough, after leggy Lesley had been crowned, Miss U.S.A.'s manager began suggesting...
...Scott explains that "this is not a pro Viet Nam policy project, it's pro American boys." At Stanford 380 students volunteered to give blood for military and civilian casualties in South Viet Nam; Ohio State held a similar "bleed-in." Michigan State students "adopted" the village of Lang Yen, 60 miles north of Saigon, and so far have sent $740 to help build a school and a marketplace. Two groups have sprung up at Williams to ridicule the Vietnik demonstrators. One, called Gurgle, plans a ten-mile drive between two taverns "to protest nothing." An other, the Student...
Somebody or other recently commented that "an artist is most isolated yet most exposed in a drawing, since nothing else comes so purely from within him or shows him to us more intimately." Lang's drawings are definitely his forte. They present his refreshing sense of harmony in its purest form. He handles the medium with such case that questions of mastery become irrelevant and he leaves us free to lose ourselves in his lyrical themes...
This show, however, does have its weak spots. Lang occasionally strays from his purpose in "The Orange Table." The triangle he uses to suggest shadow are more geometric than suggestive. In some of the other works, his colors are overstated; but "Dog in the Road", in its disunity, is the only work that should not have been shown...
...quality of Lang's painting is excellent; and his drawings beguile us with a quieting nostalgia that makes looking at them well worth a trip into Boston. On the whole, the show sparkles with a fresh idea of technological man in nature. It suggests a way of reconciling the technological world with enriched aesthetic perception...