Word: moments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...moment, Teddy Green is a car salesman in Boston. He is a pretty good one, too, with an unusual spiel. He tells customers that Fords are reliable and have great pickup-which is why he always chose them when he was stealing getaway cars. For Teddy Green used to be a bank robber; he got out of jail just four months ago. "I feel like Lazarus," he says, risen as he is from the living death of what was once a 56-year sentence. Unlike many ex-cons, however, Teddy has refused to mope, instead is coping by making...
...pigeon. Back he went to Charlestown. Next, he and five others managed to sneak in some guns and build a ladder. The idea was to pin down the lone tower guard with gunfire and climb the ladder over the wall. Everything went as planned, except that at the key moment two of the cons jumped on the ladder and it came crashing down. "This was broad daylight," remembers Green, "and all 300 inmates were watching. It must have been the first break in history with a cheering section. They were hollering: 'Get that ladder up!' When it crashed...
...speaker was Anthony Peter Smith, 55, from whose blueprints and models Smoke had been constructed, and who at the moment is the most dynamic, versatile and talented new sculptor in the U.S. art world, the darling of critics, the envy of every museum curator. Two years ago, Tony Smith*was an unknown, but today serenity is the last thing to be found in his life. He is currently riding a fast-cresting wave of enthusiasm-not merely for his sculpture but for all the huge, wild, pure (and impure) shapes of contemporary art. He is also the primary personification...
Promise & Peril. It is because artists are convinced that the great civic monuments of the future will not be pallid mitations of Greek, Gothic or Renaissance sculpture that they are now boldy taking their huge, industrially produced works to the public. It is a moment dizzying with promise and fraught with peril. For novelty quickly washes away, and bigness for its own »ake becomes merely ponderous. The reason why so much critical attention and acclaim is focused on Smith's work at the present is that, even in mock-up t has the quality of permanence. His .culptures...
...beloved. With tedious attention to detail, Robbery examines every minor maneuver of the criminals, watches a handcuff screw turn 17 times before it is opened, sees every last bag of loot passed from hand to hand into waiting trucks. And after playing it taut upper lip until the last moment, the film goes soft when all but one of the gang are captured. Fleeing England, Baker sends Pettet a note via canine messenger. Its message: "Goodbye." The final footage shows him walking up the New York docks under the superimposed title: THE ? END. A bit precious, since the Germans...