Word: missing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gallery C extended a warm, week-long invitation to ignore this mandate. From Paris, Sculptor Lygia Clark imported two powder-blue space suits of her own design. After a man and a woman entered the suits and Miss Clark sealed the sightless helmets, the occupants found that their only access to each other was through zippered pockets strategically located over the erogenous zones. When the man opened one of her pockets, he felt a hairy male chest rather than a soft female bosom; the woman, in turn, reached out to touch a rubber breast. Somewhat south of these pockets were...
...Pulitzer-prize winning author, meeting the press to try to cover up for a colleague. He had been accused, in Philadelphia's pages, of mishandling charitable funds and making homosexual advances to the Korean boys he was supposed to be helping. "A bunch of downright lies," said Miss Buck gamely, but Theodore Findley Harris, 38, had already resigned as president and executive director of the Pearl S. Buck Foundation...
...local radio station had made (but had never used) in which four Korean boys described unwilling homosexual contact with Harris. He then began digging. He traveled across the U.S., talking to former and current foundation employees, to board members and benefactors, to the young men on the tapes, to Miss Buck herself. Harris repeatedly refused...
...Harris eventually got around to appointing an overseer there; he was the first in a long line of "permanent representatives," all of whom, says Walter, have complained about the lack of money and direction from Delancey Place. But there has always been money to spruce things up just before Miss Buck arrives. Once, at the foundation's center at Sosa, Korea, $5,000 went into hurry-up redecorations, although there apparently was not enough to put up a fence around a small pond on the property. One evening during the Statesiders' visit, the body of a four-year...
Harris' behavior was erratic. He threw public tantrums and offended potential patrons in their own houses. One friend called him "a Svengali," but Miss Buck was firm: Harris acted as he did because he was "very brilliant, very high-strung and artistic...