Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...carvings, South Pacific tapa cloth, Middle Eastern bronzes. In ihe past year, the committee's nod has gone to recent works by Romare Bearden, Fairfield Porter, Ilya Bolotowsky, Adolph Gottlieb, Ludwig Sander, Wojciech Fangor, Otto Piene, Gunther Uecker, Pol Bury. Since Chase plans to open new offices in London, Milan and Puerto Rico, still more additions will be needed to furnish them as well...
Celebrating Chase's tenth anniversary last week, Rockefeller invited 290 artists from around the world to a "thank you" dinner atop the bank's 60-story skyscraper. A total of approximately 125 showed up, mostly New Yorkers, but including Hans Hartung from Paris, Sidney Nolan from London, Manabu Mabe from Brazil. West Germany's Heinz Mack prankishly mailed in a lifesize, cardboard-backed photograph of himself in black tie, folded so that it could-and did-sit down at table and listen to the speeches with the other guests...
...animation, were ideal eavesdropping situations: a foreman reporting to his jovial boss; a bus queue enlivened by a quarrel; an earnest job applicant getting the works. Thus summarized the sketches sound unexciting, but they completely engaged the viewers' attention, and were beautifully interspersed with filmed shots of London and Londoners-old ladies gossiping, Thames bargemen clowning when the camera was on them, swinging birds in a discotheque...
...wave this year.About $2,424,000 worth of paintings and sculpture have been removed from the homes of collectors. Last week's victim was Sir Roland Penrose, chairman of the Institute for Contemporary Arts, friend and biographer of Pablo Picasso. While Penrose was away, burglars broke into his London home, removed 25 paintings with an estimated value of $720,000. The prize was Picasso's 1937 Woman Weeping...
...charm, impulsive kindness, physical courage and even "grace under pressure"-if the pressure did not threaten him too directly. But long before his final crackup, Baker makes evident, Hemingway felt habitually threatened. The he-man swagger and the toothy grin camouflaged a soul less in the family of Jack London than of Edgar Allan Poe. Hemingway's life, like his writing, contained, in the words of Critic Edmund Wilson, "the undruggable consciousness of something wrong...