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Plans were formed at a gallop. Marion bought an empty Spanish Baptist church turned art gallery and hired New York architect Richard Gluckman, who was known for his design of the Warhol museum in Pittsburgh, Pa., and the site of SITE Santa Fe, an ambitious biennial exhibition of vanguard art that the Marions also helped fund. Not without a certain symmetry, if one's taste runs to icons of the Western spirit, Peter Hassrick, the former director of the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody, Wyo., was hired to fill the same role at the O'Keeffe...
...past decade of innocence. Exploitation filmmakers have proved that creative, classic and socially relevant films can be made on modest budgets. These movies hit close to home. We are in our houses, and there are nymphomaniac cannibalistic freaks waiting to feast. This is real! This is myth! BROOK KING Pittsburgh...
...Sierra Club's changing its position on wilderness preservation. But the minority of N.A.A.C.P. members who believe that integration is undesirable or--in cities led by black elected officials--unnecessary will be casting a longer shadow than usual as the organization meets for its annual convention in Pittsburgh this week. N.A.A.C.P. elders prefer to see the airing of these ideas as a therapeutic exercise. "What we're trying to do is give these people respect, let them voice out their frustration, and then we state our position and move on," says Melvin ("Skip") Alston, president of the N.A.A.C.P.'s North...
...remarkable that the United Steelworkers has shut down Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Corp. for the past nine months. The U.S.W. is no stranger to picket lines. What is really remarkable is that this longest Big Steel walkout since World War II has gone unnoticed by both the nation and the marketplace...
...been brought to the church with the knowledge that he would be lifted up into life. Memory of that remarkable moment makes it especially painful for me to read about babies who are not given any chance for life. (The Rev.) RAYMOND MICHAEL UTZ St. Susanna Church Pittsburgh...