Word: looks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that the Tribune plans to be just another organ of polemics. It wants, instead, to take a reasoned look at the affairs of Harlem and the neighboring Upper West Side, the latter a somewhat dowdy but vital area that embraces a cluster of intellectuals, a substantially Jewish middle class and a smattering of just about every other race and religion. "Unlike most dailies," the Tribune announced, "we will not compete for hard news. Unlike many weeklies, we will be neither a community bulletin board nor a pamphlet for angry manifestations." With a 14-man staff-half black, half white...
...them for the first time laugh outright. He finally made his first commercial sale a month ago. Moreover, Ryman is no longer alone. For the past year or so, a dozen-odd other, younger artists have been producing pictures or sculptures that share his work's maddeningly artless look...
...Oldenburg, his soft and cuddly toilet, with its water tank dipping to a U in the middle, suggests the Winged Victory. A magnified drainpipe incorporates the notion of a phallus and an elephant's trunk. Cigarettes on a tray look like cannons (he kicked the habit of three packs a day). Oldenburg's proposed colossal monuments were never meant to be built. Who wants a 650-ft. high Teddy bear in Central Park? But they are real nonetheless-they exist in the form of drawings, as "concepts" rather than sculpture...
Thus, whether the art is abstract, playful or simply aimed to astound the senses or stagger the imagination, each work retains a sense that an individual conceived it and executed it by hand. Moreover, he did it for a purpose-to make the viewer look, and feel, and think. The artist may speak from underground, but he retains, in an elliptical way, his traditional role. It is to make his fellowman more aware, not only of his anxiety but also of the beauty that lurks at his fingertips, in the materials of everyday existence...
...morning in Liverpool, George, John, Paul and Ringo are approached by a troubled man in a canary-colored boat. His country, he announces, is in the hands of the Blue Meanies. The boys hop aboard and eventually arrive at Pepperland, where they conquer the villains-who look like angry Rorschach blots-with that worn weapon LOVE...