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...greatest sculptor in U.S. history. Readers of this month's Art in America were electrified to learn from an article by Art Historian Rosalind Krauss that since Smith's death seven of his late sculptures -large constructions of welded steel, finished with a white coat of primer, preparatory to painting-have been ground back to bare metal, while other finished polychrome works were simply left in the open fields outside his studio at Bolton's Landing, N.Y., until their surfaces rusted into disintegration...
...Angeles by helicopter to deliver his televised economic address before a sympathetic, if somewhat restrained audience of 1,700 business leaders at the Century Plaza Hotel. The speech, billed as an effort to rally Americans in the "great crusade" against inflation, turned out to be a rather bland primer in the theory of demand and supply (see BUSINESS...
...government, at 26 became a White House speechwriter under Dwight Eisenhower. In 1969 he was appointed national chairman of the White House Conference on Children and Youth. Writer or co-author of five books on politics, he is now writing Organizing the Presidency, a book he describes as a primer for future Presidents...
...version of the myth he'd been caught up in and was obliquely courting for those few years: martyred underground hero, burning star across the long American night, harbinger of the "New Morality," the Counter Culture's John the Baptist. And he's a million dollar property. A paperback primer entitled The Essential Lenny Bruce sells all over the country. In it his routines and schticks are broken down into handy categories, Lenny on "Politics," "Blacks," "Jews," etc. He's been packaged into a trivial musical comedy that aims to sell a ridiculously romanticized "Lenny." And in the works...
Unfortunately, Coleman's usually readable and direct style is marred by his tendency to digress upon boring or inconsequential topics with a numbing, often primer-like tone. Coleman's explanation of the Federal Reserve Bank reads like a government pamphlet and never explains why he "feels proud" just to be associated with "presidents of corporations...