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WHAT CAN YOU SAY about a movie which promotes itself by sending newspapers a piece of plywood which proudly announces itself as "a plank from the political platform of Manfred Link, President of the United States of America...
...twentieth-century Russian art now at the Hirschorn Gallery in Washington, D.C., the curators referred to photographs of the artists' own installations in arranging the works. Paintings are clustered in corners; a series of small sketches is hung perpendicular to the wall; exhibition display cases are constructed of unfinished plywood. The rigid order of the ICA show reduces the potency of the objects...
...Ronald E. Vanelli, director of the Science Center, says one possible renovation--converting the many glass walls and ceilings in the Science Center so that they take in and retain less heat--may cause a stir. One suggestion calls for covering the glass surfaces with plywood and painting them black, a process that would cost almost as much as insulating the windows with a second layer of glass. Abernathy doubts that idea will ever come to fruition. "You could blow the building up too, and that would remedy it," he says...
...weeks ago the store front on West Congress St. that now boasts brilliant red and white bunting and the omniscient countenance of John Bayard Anderson looked like many others in Detroit--broken glass, beer bottles and splintered plywood showcased behind a smudged display window...
...month workers at the Sabuk coal mines, demanding a 40% pay hike, rioted for three days; a policeman was killed and scores on both sides were injured before the miners settled for a 20% increase. Three weeks ago, the Tongmyung Timber Co. of Pusan, South Korea's largest plywood maker, went bankrupt, leaving liabilities of $106 million. Some of its 3,000 employees demonstrated for their unpaid wages and skirmished with police. Says a Korean economist: "With more big bankruptcies like that one, much of our labor force could explode...