Word: modern
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Introspective and shy, but sharp, Marisol knew quite a bit about Playboy and Hugh Hefner. Recently she was asked to do a sculpture as part of a spread in which modern artists interpreted the Playmates. Marisol thought about it for a while, then declined because she "couldn't think of anything interesting to do. They look like caricatures already...
...repeatedly sold out its Pierre Cardin version, at $30 and $37.50, to such customers as Steve McQueen, Jason Robards Jr. and Paul Newman. Cardin, the designer most responsible for the trend, insists that the turtleneck is appropriate for any occasion, provided that the suit it is worn with is "modern"-by which he means a suit designed with a high-cut jacket. The style horrifies restaurant headwaiters, who are still weathering the onslaught of women in pants suits. But it appeals strongly to brolly males on both sides of the Atlantic. Bound for a first-night supper party with Princess...
Eleanor Rigby, also scored for strings but boldly modern in harmonics and urgent cross-rhythms. In Love You To, they incorporated the sinuous sounds of Indian music, which Beatle George Harrison picked up during six weeks of study with Sitarist Ravi Shankar; soon raga-rock was all the rage...
...Orgies with popcorn. And 24 girls?count 'em, 24?living right overhead! Not to mention all those mechanical reassurances, like TV and hifi. It is all so familiar and domestic. Don Juan? Casanova? That was in another country and, besides, the guys are dead. Hugh Hefner is alive, American, modern, trustworthy, clean, respectful, and the country's leading impresario of spectator...
...debate bristles with modern implications, but in intellectual terms it is platitudinous and inconclusive. "The play's chief aim," Sade observes, "has been to take to bits Great Propositions and their opposites." On the emotional plane, however, there is no doubt about who wins. The inmates set up a mad clamor for Marat's cause. Drooling, twitching, cross-eyed, filthy, they stagger about the stage like broken bugs. "We want our revolution," they croak in cracked chorus...