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...bathrobe in the New York Times. "There was nobody in the bathrobe," he explains, "but when I saw it, it looked like me." He made a series of self-portraits based on that image, including the Double Isometric Self-Portrait (Serape). Before the painted canvas, he hung wire plumb lines, which cast shadows on the bathrobes and thus give them a curious kind of life. This tense and intentional counterpoint between hard and soft materials, object and paint, reality and illusion can be traced through virtually all of his works...
Young Designs in Living by Barbara Plumb. 159 pages. Viking. $14.95. A fascinating social document, full of cheerful ideas about interior design. The book shows how today's "with it" people live in Europe and the U.S. They subdivide interior space into tricky levels. They love mirrors and blazing primary colors. Their art works are random-a bolt of Persian cloth, a chrome lamp, a billboard fragment, a lute. Does all this glitter mean anything more than an egotist's smile? Author Barbara Plumb, editor of the Home section of the New York Times Magazine, chats tersely about...
...romance held firm until Dowling left the Mid-West to come to Yale. "I almost died," Sue said at the time. "Yes, it was hard leaving her," Brian recalls, "but I wanted to go to Yale and play football." Sue has since married, Marvin Plumb, a tractor salesman...
...demonstrators "Communists" and endlessly to denounce "police brutality." The crucial question about the riots, now three weeks past, is no longer merely who did what, with what, to whom. More important is why the melee occurred, and what it meant. So far, the press has failed sufficiently to plumb those questions...
...house sits like a jester in a court of sedate plutocrats. Its chimney is rakishly out of plumb. The roof shingles are a motley mismatch. An attached garage is nothing but a skeleton of stone pillars, and the garden is dominated by a magnificent stand of ragweed. The house shows not its facade but its robust posterior to Heathcote Road, one of the best addresses in New York's pleasant suburban town of Scarsdale...