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...life, Rauschenberg scoured the streets and junk shops for objects to add to his paintings. Stuffed roosters, pillows, Coke bottles, clocks and a telephone book popped out in his work. He even made his bed into a painting; having run out of canvas, he decided to paint on his quilt. "I just couldn't get the paint to overcome the geometric patterns of the quilt," explains the artist. "I decided I've got to admit it's a quilt." One admission led to another, so he added his pillow, and then some sheets. Hence Bed (see opposite...
Model in the Yard. In a drive to get his railroad out of the red, Oeftering last week was preparing a plan to pare its welfare load, revamp its crazy-quilt fare structure, and get fresh government capital to retire its debt, which costs $130 million a year in interest. His plan will probably be derailed by Chancellor Ludwig Erhard's administration, but Oeftering hopes to gain at least some mileage. Battling to make the state road run more like private industry, he relaxes from his work in the basement of his modest Frankfurt home, where...
...Government's cotton policy is a crazy quilt that would put even Rumpelstiltskin in stitches-and it costs the U.S. taxpayer $500 million a year. Congress has piled subsidy on top of subsidy, seems to think up a new price prop every year...
...Trustbuster Orrick contends that last week's suits were routine and signified no tougher policy on his part. But businessmen complain generally that U.S. antitrust policy is a vague and antiquated crazy quilt that has been haphazardly stitched together over the last 75 years. They fear that Orrick will be emboldened by the U.S. Supreme Court's decision fortnight ago to break up two big mergers-one between a pair of banks in Lexington, Ky., and the other between two pipeline companies-even though the deals already had the approval of other federal agencies. And they considered even...
...overwrought in the years when he composed these six pivotal symphonies, but one would never know it from these mellow recordings by Antonio Janigro and the Radio Zagreb Symphony Orchestra. All three LPs are superbly recorded, but Janigro mutes the voice of Haydn's turmoil under a soft quilt of woodwinds...