Word: newcomb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Also at Boston University, Kim Newcomb's iridescent blown glass "Hot Dogs and Potato Chips" testifies to the influence of pop art on craftsmen. Blown glass potato chips really have to be seen to be visualized. The idea of doing this subject in such an elegant and delicate media. complete with paper napkins, plaster milk, and on an ordinary cafeteria tray really strikes the literary more than the visual funny bone. And Arneson's gawky earthenware bathroom sink is so literary that it even has a punchline-the brown splotch in the bowl is labeled "hard to get out stain...
...witnesses agreed that mortgages have become the chronic invalid of finance because of structural flaws in the mortgage market. "Under present regulations of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, the growth in savings and loan associations that supported home-mortgage financing is past," warned Washington Economist Robinson Newcomb. According to Newcomb, the "future looks dark" unless there are "changes in the rules of the game...
...Died. Newcomb Mott, 27, Massachusetts book salesman who last November was sentenced to 18 months in a Soviet labor camp for wandering across the Soviet frontier near Murmansk while on a vacation in Norway; reportedly by his own hand (the Russians claim that he slashed his throat in a lavatory of the train that was taking him to a camp in central Russia); near Kirov. Washington immediately denounced Russian handling of the case and demanded a "full investigation...
...Jima, Newcomb...
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