Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Patty and her companions-the Harrises and Yoshimura-were abandoned during the summer of 1974 by other radical underground groups. In particular, they were shunned by the Weatherman, the most violent revolutionary organization of the late '60s and early '70s, because of an incident that occurred in Manhattan. At the time, the S.L.A. fugitives were using a West 92nd Street apartment that had been a Weatherman hideout. Pursuing Patty, FBI agents not only discovered the sanctuary but very nearly got their hands on Kathy Boudin, 32. She was a leader of a group that had been making bombs...
...finding ideas and writers," according to Viking President Thomas Guinzburg, 49, a longtime Jackie friend who declined to discuss his new employee's salary. Lest anyone think that working will interfere with her evenings, Jackie promptly celebrated her job by catching Singer Frank Sinatra's act at Manhattan's Uris Theater and then adjourning to the "21" Club on the arm of Ol' Blue Eyes himself...
...foot on American soil; as a gesture of good will, 35 of his paintings, screens and objets d'art have been sent to precede him. The show opened last week at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, and will move next month to the Japan House Gallery in Manhattan, whose enterprising director, Rand Castile, worked more than a year negotiating this coup...
...current show at the Marlborough Gallery in Manhattan chronicles much of the Avedon graphic revolution. It is also Avedon's formal move into what was once the private domain of painters-print selling at prices ranging from $75 to $1,800 for limited editions...
This show is not Avedon under full throttle. It is in black and white only (although in his advertising and fashion work he is a master of color). The multi-image strips from the Manhattan Project Co.'s play Alice in Wonderland that greet visitors at the gallery entrance are mostly weak pictures. And Avedon, one of the keen observers of the sexual revolution in America, only toys with what he could have said on the subject...