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...half a dozen youthful Chicagoans who call themselves "the Hairy Who." As can be seen from Karl Wirsum's The Odd Awning Awed, the style of the Who is based on garish colors and art-nouveau line, draws its imagery from comic strips, bubble-gum wrappers and ath-lete's-foot advertisements. The movement's weakness is an adolescent desire to shock; its strength lies in its verve and technical proficiency-qualities that mark the Whitney Annual throughout and that are in themselves the best news in the show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Neck & Neck | 12/22/1967 | See Source »

...debate against the motion Phillips was directed against the t. Barber, accusing Phillips of lete lack of good faith," asked "if re not going to come to this meethat the hell do they want...

Author: By Joseph M. Russin, | Title: HYRC Stings Phillips; Convention Opens | 4/15/1961 | See Source »

...Smithsonian Institution. "Young people just don't go into this field any more." For the Smithsonian-which normally employs six taxidermists-and for other U.S. museums there is good news: an inexpensive, do-it-yourself process that may make the taxidermist's knife and needle as obso lete as a black snake's cast-off skin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Do-lt-Yourself Taxidermy | 9/12/1960 | See Source »

...dimension of nuclear horror makes the search for peace through disarmament more urgent than ever, it has not made the lessons of history obso lete. Precisely because a single H-bomb can demolish a great city, a stock of H-bombs secreted in the vast expanses of the U.S.S.R. could become the instrument of Communist domination of the world. Neutralists and disarmament-at-any-price Westerners grow impatient at the West's insistence on discussing details of inspection and control in response to grandiose Soviet disarmament proposals, but upon that hardheaded insistence may rest the future of freedom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: The Lessons of History | 4/4/1960 | See Source »

...unnumbered undershirt and baggy slacks, the pudgy, 49-year-old Spaniard looked more like a masseur than an ath lete. Felix Erauzquin picked up a javelin, held it behind his back, spun around twice, and let it go. The javelin traveled 273 ft. 6 in.-only nf in. short of the world's record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Javelin Made Easy | 10/29/1956 | See Source »

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