Word: polkas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...once famous dog Checkers is recalled in Richard Nixon's checkered silks. As for Ronald Reagan's polka dots, Democrat Conrad says in a frankly partisan spirit that they represent a clown's suit-or, to put it more politely, theatrical attire. George Romney and Nelson Rockefeller are done in "recessive" blue; that is not a political assessment, but only Conrad's way of pushing them back in the perspective of the picture. And the red and white stripes on Percy? Replies the artist, who may possibly have more political savvy than he realizes: "This just...
Married. Nancy Quirk Williams Jr., 23, eldest daughter of former Michigan Governor G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams; and Theodore Ketterer III, 23, salesman for IBM; in an Episcopal ceremony in Detroit. Soapy's regalia: striped trousers and cutaway morning coat, embellished with his familiar green polka...
...covered with polka dots tonight. Some are painted on the floor (actors act on them); some are painted on pieces of canvas hung from the ceiling (actors hide behind them). Actually the canvas pieces are supposed to be cars, or maybe hotel rooms. A red-coated manager trundles back and forth waiting on the guests hidden behind the canvases, supplying them with hot water, bed-pans, binoculars, or women, and laughing a whole lot. Meanwhile, an exhausted athlete and a domineering lady keep running around the stage (they go to bed together, and emerge as policemen in the second scene...
That's one side--the good guys in polka dots and paisley. "Who's on the other side?" asks Ginsberg rhetorically. "People who think we arebad." The lines are drawn. "Total assault on the Culture," orders Ed Sanders, the Fugs lead singer, as he strikes out with ballads of contemporary protest points of view, and general dissatisfaction...
...picture. They were like Yeats, who slaved an entire day to get a few lines that satisfied him. The quick pace of modern life has accelerated the painter and wrecked his work. If I draw nice circles and squares, or if you paint pretty stripes set off with excellent polka dots, we have not made art, because, as we have all been saying for years while only half believing it, anybody can do that...