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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DIED. Gordon M. Smith, 72, foresighted director of Buffalo's Albright-Knox Art Gallery from 1955 to 1973; of a heart attack; in Buffalo. By boldly purchasing works by such contemporary painters as Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Jasper Johns and Arshile Gorky before they were widely bought by larger, more affluent museums, Smith and the museum's angel, Woolworth Heir Seymour H. Knox, assembled a collection of abstract expressionist art that is virtually unsurpassed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 4, 1979 | 6/4/1979 | See Source »

Virtually every major U.S. entry in the competition came away with a palme. The most popular winner was Sally Field, present and weeping on being named Best Actress for her performance as a Southern labor organizer in Martin Ritt's Norma Rae. Said she: "I'm so happy, happy, happy-just thinking about my name on French television. I always thought the film would be up there among the prizes, but it's the first time my work has ever been publicly honored." Jack Lemmon, who won Best Actor for his portrayal of a troubled nuclear engineer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Sweeping Cannes | 6/4/1979 | See Source »

Class conflict makes for good fiction, and in Elkin's novels the great social leveler is death. "Of course I'm obsessed with death," he admits. "The first words of my first book were 'Everybody dies.' But I'm also obsessed with death's alternative, which is life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Life After Afterlife | 6/4/1979 | See Source »

...Sure,' God said. 'I'm Hero of Heaven. I call on Myself.' That was when He began His explanations. He revealed the secrets of books, of pictures and music . . . why marches were more selfish than anthems, lieder less stirring than scat, why landscapes were to be preferred over portraits, how statues of women were superior to statues of men but less impressive than engravings on postage. He told them how to choose wines and why solos were more acceptable to Him than duets. He told them the secret causes of inflation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Life After Afterlife | 6/4/1979 | See Source »

There have been counterstrains. The transition now to a far more prudent and intelligent energy policy demands reactivation of what M. Carl Holman, president of the National Urban Coalition, calls "a sense of The Green." The earliest towns and villages in the U.S., Holman notes, "usually set aside some land at the center that was held in common, called The Green. But to day, people have difficulty feeling that they have things in common: that there are group interests that override individual needs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Weakness That Starts at Home | 6/4/1979 | See Source »

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