Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...East 57th. Known for "happenings" and Hamburgers, Oldenburg performs a new kind of artistic hocuspocus. With a fine feeling for materials, he instills inanimate objects with Geist, then wrenches from them a whole range of emotions. His Soft Telephone, its mouthpiece dangling, its coin box regurgitating, is a sad sack in shiny black vinyl. A Soft Typewriter, its pearly Plexiglas keys hopelessly entangled, collapses into its shell with the mortification of a machine that suddenly finds itself ready for IBM's junk heap. Other objects in 22 materials along with some drawings. Through...
After you've shipped, once or twice or many times, you're expected to have a supply of ready-reserve sea stories on hand for the attentive. The sad fact is, you do. But the temptation to satisfy fantasies, the case with which life at sea can be embroidered, make it hard not to lie, and over the winter in House dining halls you finally grow flip about the whole business...
...thin little man, balding, in a dark blue suit and red tie, has not the figure of a sensational singing star. But when that little man has the face and voice of Charles Aznavour singing sweet and sad French cabaret songs, the figure becomes an asset. Last Sunday night Aznavour's soulful visage stampeded the girls who had come from French Canada and New England to hear him; one Smithie walked away dazed with ecstasy: "I toucher his face, I touched his face...
...sad, inscrutable fact is that raincoats are made to be either stylish or serviceable, never both at once. The customer concerned with really keeping dry is stuck with rubber or plastic versions. Both would look more suitable on filling-station attendants than on girls. They are also...
...embalmers. A regular feature of each issue is the column "This I Remember" by Jerome Burke. Each month Mr. Burke reminisces about persons who, through one misfortune or another have come under his professional cure. In the February, 1964, DE-CE-CO Magazine, Mr. Burke's memories concerned the sad demise of a Harvard man and a Radcliffe girl; the column is reprinted here with the kind permission of the Dodge Chemical Company. The cartoons accompanying the text were drawn by Henry Schwartz and did not appear with the original article--A.T.W...