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...look like an explosion in some sort of factory-because Morris' untitled pieces are not intended to represent anything. "What you see is what there is," says Morris. Since 1962, Morris watchers have seen him exhibit an 8-ft.-square slab of painted plywood, a tangled knot of rope, a pile of dirt, and himself, nude but covered with mineral oil, moving slowly across a stage while clasped in the arms of a lovely female dancer. Not everyone agrees about the value of these displays. But they have won 39-year-old Morris recent retrospectives at Washington...
...parakiting, the water skier becomes airborne when his trailing parachute pops open. High above Acapulco Bay, the Secretary was doing just fine in his first try at this bold new sport. Then the tow rope from the speedboat snapped, leaving ex-Paratrooper Robert Finch to plunge 150 ft. into the drink. "It was great for my education," said the HEW boss, "but not for my health and welfare...
...conception of Boys, Crowley said, "I loved Virginia Woolf and it influenced me a lot-but the real inspiration was the Salinger story. 'Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut.' And movies like All About Eve [Mankiewicz's melodrama about Hollywood stardom] and Hitchcock's Rope, which gave me the idea of using confined quarters as a dramatic device...
...actual performance. Here is a classic example of social facts outrunning social theory. This is a strong point for the pragmatist; he may say, with pride, the less theory, the better the practice. But it may also be said that pragmatism has come to the end of its rope...
...around in a circle in that same torture chamber," recalled Vlassis. "They had moved the bench to one side a little, and I was in the middle of a circle made up of ten people. Each one of them held something-a stick, a metal piece, a rope. So in order to protect myself against their beatings, I had to run. When I went away from one person who had hit me, I approached another person, who then hit me. I think the purpose of this was to make me run so that the circulation should come back...