Word: popping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WERE just beginning another tune when I heard a muffled "Pop!" I though immediately that it was gunfire, but I wasn't sure. I looked over in the direction of the noise to see what was happening. People were crowding around some woman lying on the ground behind the band...
...prelude promised nothing more serious than the latest variation on such nostalgic student pranks as pantie raids and phone-booth packing. A breezy little article in the North Dakota State University newspaper encouraged students to "zip" to the mining town of Zap, N.D. (pop. 300) for a Mother's Day "Zap-Out." Sure enough, late last week columns of collegians began rolling down Zap's unpaved main thoroughfare, their cars emblazoned with signs readiag ZAP OR BUST. Mayor Norman Fuchs, sporting a ZAP N.D. OR BUST! sweat shirt, and some of the townsfolk turned out to offer...
Transparent and Purple. "Mystery is the important thing," says Ethel Scull, Pop-art patron and wife of the owner of a fleet of New York City taxicabs. "I'll never, never wear a see-through without a body stocking," she insists, remembering the passing pedestrian who had one look through her first one before "his glasses fell off." Model Penelope Tree substitutes a satin bra for the body stocking, refusing to go without anything. "It's hard enough getting people to pay attention to what you're saying," she says, "without focusing their attention on your bosom...
...characteristic that dominates Rockefeller's selections in the three exhibitions, it is strength of form. Significance or meaning are secondary to Rockefeller. "My enjoyment of art," he says, "is more an esthetic than an intellectual reaction." This leads him to favor Cubists over Surrealists, color-field painters over pop. Yet he is not doctrinaire about his preferences for schools, and his collection includes George Segal and Giorgio de Chirico's Song of Love...
...have gone before-big bands, Delta blues, Charlie Parker, classical.' We're presenting them all in a rock package." It makes a powerfully appealing package. The LP has sold more than 600,000 copies since its release in December, and last week was No. 2 on the pop charts...