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...theatrical I-pieces, Stop the World and The Roar of the Greasepaint, Newley again presents himself as an overpainted everymannikin, this time named Heironymus Merkin,* who views his life as one long stag film...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: l-Piece | 3/28/1969 | See Source »

Star Photos. Richard Merkin, 29, is a Brooklyn Miniver Cheevy, born too late to know at first hand the decades between the wars. But he has become an indefatigable researcher into the era, which he sees typified by "an innocence, a lack of maturity, and on the other hand, a marvelous sense of style and elegance." To recapture the past, he surrounds himself with trivia, including old copies of Esquire, FORTUNE and The New Yorker, a collection of Popeye lamps, Old Gold cigarette posters and bound volumes of Superman comics. Merkin adopts the look of the past as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Thirties on Their Minds | 3/8/1968 | See Source »

...that, along with the Ward-Nasse, will become a leading force in Boston's contemporary art scene. It is run by a group of energetic ladies who know the field, and they have had several good exhibits since the gallery opened last fall. Just ending now is Richard Merkin's first one-man show in which everything was sold-an extremely rare event for Boston, especially for an unknown artist. His paintings are in the realm of "Pop Art"-the artist calls them "slanted documentaries"-for they comment on popular images. But these works have none of the banal, obvious...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Newbury Street: Boston's World of Art Tour of the Galleries | 4/24/1965 | See Source »

...Ripper (Sterling Hayden), a right-wing general, is convinced that the Russians are surreptitiously "sapping our bodily fluids" by flouridating drinking water. Concerned for America's "virility," Ripper orders a surprise nuclear attack on the USSR. Action alternates between the Washington War Room, where a liberal, weak-kneed President Merkin Muffley (Peter Sellers) tries frantically to recall the planes, and a wounded B-52, whose loudly patriotic pilot, Major T. J. "King" Kong (Slim Pickens) urges his racially mixed crew on to Moscow with slogans of brotherhood and strains of "When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again...

Author: By Curtis Hessler, | Title: Dr. Strangelove | 2/5/1964 | See Source »

Iron-Aid. An ironing pad with an aluminum-foil center that "bounces back the heat" and enables users to iron both sides at once, was put on the market by Boston's Mme. Merkin Co. Price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Jan. 7, 1952 | 1/7/1952 | See Source »

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