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...work, it is a trifle startling to see Liberman in his studio among the woods of Warren, Conn.; by what power does this wrenlike Russian contrive to lug about and assemble immense steel objects, which run to 25 ft. in height and several tons in weight? The prosaic answer is that he has an assistant, hoists and a crane; but the preservation of Liberman's peculiar touch on such a scale is impressive. Where, for instance, did he get the great squashed cylinder that went into Ascent, 1970 (opposite)! "Well," says Liberman in the tone of a watercolorist explaining...
Buckley and Goldstein piously proclaim that their sheet is not just another specimen of sado-sex journalism, but the distinction seems elusive in Screw. The writing style is often prosaic and juvenile, and the four-letter argot is flung against a wide variety of institutions and individuals-among them the New York Times (which once unwittingly carried an ad for Screw), the TV networks, J. Edgar Hoover, Billy Graham and Richard Nixon. On the tamer side, there have been interviews with Joe Namath and Timothy Leary and an in-bed session with John Lennon and Yoko...
...Prosaic Gentleman...
...farm, Scott plays chess, bridge and golf with neighbors. His wife, a strong, warm woman, is, in the phrase of a family friend, "an anchor in George's life." Colleen herself credits Scott's self-control. "When G.C. isn't drinking, up here he becomes the most prosaic of gentlemen." Not so prosaic, however, as to accept what many people consider the honor of an Academy Award nomination. This month, cited for Patton, he declined again. "I don't give a damn about it," he says in a voice like a sonic boom. "I'm making too much money anyway...
Last week another and more prosaic lie proved the undoing of Norway's chunky, affable and usually adroit Prime Minister Per Borten...