Word: remarkes
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...Suvero once declared that his work must be able "to defend itself against an unarmed man." That is a peculiar-sounding remark, evoking an image of the sculpture as punching bag. But it is of a piece with the aims and the actual look of his constructions. They are to be swung on, climbed, played with. "Mark can set kids going the way nobody else I've heard of can," says his dealer, Richard Bellamy. "His loft is always full of them...
...thing to Bread and Roses. They can (and did) mobilize a group of New York City liberationists to stand on street corners and whistle at construction workers, complimenting them on their bleeps and hardhats. And street confrontations can anger women like N. O. W.'s Ti-Grace Atkinson to remark that the only honest woman is a whore: at least she gets paid for walking the streets...
...Another whimsical observation on presidential politics was offered last week by Henry Ford II, who was heard to remark at the dedication of the new L.B.J. Library at the University of Texas: "We've got to get a Democrat back in the White House in '72 so I can start living like a Republican again...
International finance was dominated last week by a Pirandellian discussion of a statement that everyone solemnly insisted had never been uttered. The alleged non-remark was a request that Japan increase the value of the yen, and it supposedly was not made by U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Philip Trezise at an informal meeting of U.S. and Japanese government officials at Lake Kawaguchi near Tokyo...
...allotment will be small, the techniques used for studying the samples require very little material and much time. Considering the relatively short time between reception of the Apollo 14 and 15 samples, Clifiord Frondel, professor of Mineralogy and head of the investigating team at Hoffman Lab, was led to remark, "We are going to have lunar rocks coming out of our ears...