Word: oceaneering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Life) and wrapped up the Contemporary Art Museum in Chicago like a birthday present--revealed plans to stretch a long wall-like fence across the Marin Country peninsula, north of San Francisco. He ran into a lot of problems in his attempted ramble from Susuin Bay to the Ocean--not the least of which was that his route included a national seashore. The project fizzled, and all that remains are his plans. These are being presented, until October 12, at the Institute of Contemporary Art, on Boylston St. in Boston. Cristo's idea, and the opposition it ran into from...
...Fogg show includes his earliest comic-book panels from 1963, which first won him his notoriety. Lichtenstein went off on an entirely different tangent in his attempts to convey the wavy fluidity, "the absolute indeterminate essence" of the sun, sky and ocean. He uses a combination of schematic and symbolic lines, actual color photographs, and a shimmering plastic called Rowlux, that in any other context--the plastic body of a comb or a brush, a drug-store display, a hair-salon wall--would be called vulgar. But here it is uncanny in its hypnotic approximation of nature...
...have to feel most sorry, ruthless or not, for the handsome black man, perhaps in street clothes, perhaps in a number 14, sitting on a bench with his arm curving into an ugly hunk of plaster, watching while the Red Sox bask in the incredible, exhilarating core of an ocean of energy, the high of a pennant race and maybe more...
Reluctantly or not, Shanker really established his firm grip on the union in 1968, when the city started an experiment in school decentralization in the largely black Ocean Hill-Brownsville area of Brooklyn. Black militants in control of the schools dismissed 13 teachers who were active in the U.F.T. In response, Shanker called a teachers' strike that lasted for 35 days and led to a nasty period of public hostility between New York's black community and the heavily Jewish teachers' union. The U.F.T. eventually won reinstatement of the teachers, but Shanker spent 15 days in jail...
Meanwhile, the Soviet Union must content itself with an enlarged navy cruising the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea and with a dramatically enlarged presence in Southeast Asian countries. In the Laotian capital of Vientiane, the tiny office of Aeroflot, the Soviet airline, lists 150 Russians as employees. There are intelligence reports that the Soviets have brought 40 patrol boats to cruise the Mekong River border between Thailand and Laos. China, for its part, maintains close contact with the Communist movements in Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines, and would support any guerrilla insurrections in these nations...