Word: robert
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FRONT PAGE. Robert Ryan and Bert Convy, backed by an adroit cast, star in a revival of the Ben Hecht-Charles MacArthur saga of newspapering in the Chicago of the 1920s. When the time comes to put the paper to bed and bring down the final curtain on this breezy merriment, the audience may well feel sorry that it has to go home...
WHAT IF?, by Robert Pierce (Golden Press; $1.00), is an exuberant book for the very young with splashy drawings and light verse. Sample: "What if a crocodile big as an ox/Hid in the hallway and ate your socks...
...categories: works of visual humor and three-dimensional drawings of literary witticisms. While plenty of fine, hard-to-handle glazes and well-made vessels were shown, the ceramicists (concentrated at Boston University) seemed to be the chief jokesters among craftsmen. In his six-foot high "Alice House Wall" Robert Arneson builds earthenware "stones" into a picture of a landscape with a ranch house. But its humor isn't in the subject-it's in the way the "stones" jostle and hug each other, and how the different blues, greens, oranges, pinks, and other unevenly applied glazes look next...
...family album. Only instead of a vague reminiscence, the thought of relatives we knew ten years ago, there is a jarring of the intellect; the moment of rebellion is stunned into life. Edgar Varese in his studio. Nin printing her own works in an attic on Macdougal Street, Robert Duncan as a boy: they all appear, either as apparitions in the photographs or in the text...
...bill's sponsors-Rep. Timothy W. Hickey (D-Camb.) and Sen. Robert L. Cawley (D-Bos.)-claimed their proposal would provide a satisfactory solution to the stadium problem. Noting that upkeep of the stadium is costly, they said. "This will relieve the University from this continuous financial expense...