Word: puckering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most popular doll this season is not Superstar or Malibu Barbie. It is not Hawaiian Barbie ($7) or even Beautiful Bride Barbie ($10). Jordan's can barely keep the new Kissing Barbie ("Make her lips pucker! Hear the sound! See the lipstick mark!--$12) in stock...
...Pucker-Safrai Gallery at #173, a couple of blocks from the Public Library, is currently exhibiting a collection of Marc Chagall's graphics, in honor of his 90th birthday. Chagall's art has the surreal. fantastic quality of a fairground where the sideshows never end. He depicts horses and riders cavorting inside sitting rooms and paints the moon suspended from the branches of a potted plant. His figures generally ignore the dictates of Isaac Newton. People glide, lean, float and spin like marionettes. Sometimes they are gigantic, towering ever a pink Eiffel Tower like the Harlequia-costumed "Magicien en Rose...
...portion of its spirit by painting or sculpting it) the chances of success in the field were much greater. What may appear pure ignorance and superstition to Western man has produced some of the most expressive works of art known. The collection of Eskimo sculpture in the second Pucker-Safrai gallery is a perfect example of an art free of preconceptions about its own nature, unhampered by stultifying theories. These soapstone carvings of Arctic wildlife were created by artists who hunted the animals they sculpted. And apparently the best carvers are also the best hunters...
Lily can become one of her "real" people very suddenly. At a dinner, when the conversation has begun to annoy her, she will pucker her lips and pull her face down so that it looks long enough to get her into the starting gate at Aqueduct. That will be Ernestine...
...Pucker-Safrai is fond of this Spanish-born artist; he has had 5 shows here over the past 6 years. The two series presently on exhibit, "Folklore" and "Circus," justify the gallery's committment; Kieff proves himself a master of polished bronze. The "Folklore" works, like tales, sweep through time and space. Symbolic continuums of metal, they demand time to trace their complex curves and planes, yet unify their motion in abstract patterns which seem as natural, yet are as carefully structured, as plot elements in a folk tale (three brothers, wicked step-mothers). "Ciecus" is more subtly rooted...