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Around the Common, the yellow and white banners flapped in the overcast dawn. Nice banners, but the stylized monogram is a bit tough to make out. "J.P.--John, Paul" one spectator decides. "No, John Portak. I have to get one of these for my brother," another says...
...speaking of linen, Kevin McCall, director of facilities for the Department of Athletics, says that the Department will resume free towel service in the IAB as soon as possible. Why did he discontinue the service in the first place? So he could put Jack Reardon's monogram on each...
Vexing Matters. Rosalynn put her personal touch on the trip, employing a specially designed monogram (see picture) that was put on everything from press kits to baggage tags. Occasionally she would break the ice at her meetings by speaking Spanish. TIME Correspondent Stanley Cloud, who accompanied her, reports that she moved quickly and easily into discussions with her hosts about such vexing matters as U.S.-Cuban relations, economic policies and military aid. Said a top White House aide: "Jimmy wants to show these countries that he cares about them and is interested in their problems. In his mind, the best...
Rauschenberg's combines, like the work of his friend and mentor Marcel Duchamp, are seeded with such puns, parallels and quirks of meaning. Like Duchamp, he was given to embedding a kind of ironic lechery in his images?the supreme example being Monogram, 1959. Monogram remains the most notorious of Rauschenberg's combines: a stuffed Angora goat, girdled with a tire. The title is self-fulfilling?it is Rauschenberg's monogram, the sign by which he is best known?but why did it become so famous? Partly because of its unacknowledged life as a powerful sexual fetish. The lust...
...warned that when Labor came to power there would be "howls of anguish from the rich" and that he would squeeze them "until the pips squeak." For another, shortly before Healey brought his first budget to the House of Commons in the traditional red leather dispatch box bearing the monogram VR (for Victoria Regina), it was announced that under Conservative leadership the nation had suffered the worst monthly trade deficit in its history -$1.02 billion in February...