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...Chaplin falling into a machine. The pictures visually crowd the spectator, jostle and shout at him. All the vernacular of commercialism-billboards, neon signs, girlie magazines, comic books-provides the imagery. By using such familiar props, the Pop artists are commenting on the new urban landscape of supermarkets and motel rooms, of roadsides and TV commercials, a civilization in which the old-fashioned nature celebrated by old-fashioned artists has become merely a fleeting view from the window of a car, train, plane or apartment house. Thus most Pop works contain a tacit indictment of a society that allows life...
Without hanging up, he punches an other button and listens: an associate wants instructions on whether to bid on an auditorium to replace the Fillmore West, which will be torn down next year to make way for a new Howard Johnson motel. "Yeah - put in a bid. Go low at first and see what they come back with. I want that place...
Ironically, his life ended on a muted but genuinely heroic note. In his late 60s, Weyman finally abandoned-or conquered-his artistic impulses and went to work as a night manager in a Yonkers motel. There, on the night of August 27, 1960, after a year on the job, he was shot to death bravely trying to foil a hold-up attempt...
...herself periodically. Well, Country Editor J. C. Barrows could be playing chess as usual. Old Helen Trombley, the town hypochondriac, could be counting her twinges to old Vebber Stevens at the pig farm. Elizabeth Rust, who truly loves her husband, might be making love to Jimmy Clancy at the motel. Down by the quarry, Kenneth Borgstrom, a schoolboy, might be making love to Eunice Dewsnap, a nurse. And Tony DiLuzio, teen-age Lothario, might be making love to just about anybody just about anywhere...
...umpire?" Why not? The next day her husband gave in, and Bernice enrolled in the Florida Baseball School. "The school didn't have any facilities for a woman," she says. "They tried to set up some temporary quarters, but they were so awful that I moved into a motel." Though she confesses that "those six weeks felt like 60 years," she graduated with high marks...