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Bullhorns & Diapers. Abernathy would probably be happy to get so visible a location, since the main purpose of the campaign is to wrench the national conscience and prod Congress into granting greater aid to the 29,900,000 American poor. "We will stay until Congress deals with racial poverty," said Abernathy last week. It will be an expensive stay: merely to feed the demonstrators should cost upwards of $150,000 a day, and Abernathy's procurement list includes items as various as 300 bullhorns, 10,000 disposable diapers and 250,000 nails. Day-care centers for demonstrators' infants...
...effects and psychedelic projections that have since moved into discotheques, ballets and boutiques; the newest and most radical works are apt to be calm, cool and minimal. A case in point is Dan Flavin's "Indoor Routines," constructed of 54 pink and gold fluorescent tubes, which turned the main floor of Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art into a lurid, luminal glen...
...mock defense of the ad game, Welles proposes that "the main product in the 20th century is waste" and predicts that in 200 years the world will be standing on a huge mound of garbage. Possibly. And close to the bottom will be this story of a Fake's Progress that is as false as an ?8 note...
...faith in the moral superiority of the good old days. Throughout his career, he projected "images of longing"-from the barnyard and smalltown settings for many of Mickey Mouse's antics to the entrance of Disneyland, which compels visitors to pass through a turn-of-the-century Midwestern Main Street, "an idealized vision of Disney's boyhood environment...
...sure, a bit exhausting. Clouds of smoke and a few glazed stares from the 2500 guests greeted the main speaker, Superior Court Judge Francis J. Good, as he praised "one who rose from the ranks of the people--a friend of the man in the streets, member of a family famed for its industry, its sincerity, and its integrity." Good, like Sullivan, went to St. Paul's School and he noted with pleasure that "St. Paul's is still Walter's home base...