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Paul Rotterdam, senior lecturer on Visual Studies, has removed his live-chicken-and-egg sculpture from Carpenter Center after the hen was stolen Monday and replaced with a roast chicken on a platter...

Author: By Lisa Brown, | Title: Chicken Sculpture | 3/4/1976 | See Source »

...original object to other things or concepts. For example, a mitt, which he purchased in a Kresges dime store for 96 cents suggests to him a clam, or a landscape, a "sunrise set". Conversely, he sees the "mitt" form in a milkweed pod, in an ear, in a platter of fried eggs, of pie a la mode. The original mitt is also part of the ICA exhibit. It is carefully labeled: "on loan from Claes Oldenburg...

Author: By Eleni Constantine, | Title: Only Connect the Interlocking Image | 2/19/1976 | See Source »

...exhilaration, the accomplishment and the praise did not come to Fitzsimmons on a silver platter. They resulted from years of running experience and thousands of grueling training hours in the off-season...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Fitzsimmons Takes Success in Stride | 11/26/1975 | See Source »

...misapprehension by Sadat-and the other Arabs for whom he will be speaking-about what a U.S. President can and cannot do. As an Israeli Foreign Ministry official said: "Egypt must begin making some concessions of its own. It cannot expect America to offer up Israel on a platter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: A Watershed Week for Egypt's Sadat | 6/9/1975 | See Source »

...shows are worth watching but of very uneven quality. A very funny bit about "historical impersonations" featuring Graham Hill impersonating St. John the Baptist--the moustachioed, goggle-girded head of the racing car driver speeding across stage on top of a silver platter with Indy 500 noises on the soundtrack--can be followed by dismal material about a football team explaining "Why We Love the Yangtze...

Author: By Paul K. Rowe, | Title: Of Budgies and Spain | 1/29/1975 | See Source »

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