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...hero is Simon James (Bruce Davidson), a stalwart on the university rowing team with only a passing interest in political agitation. Radical students call for a strike against the university's plan to put up an ROTC headquarters on a playground, while James and his teammates scull on the river. Two chants ring in our hero's ears: "Stroke!" and "Strike!", surely a more suitable title for this simpleminded exercise. James chooses the latter. It is never explained why, exactly, although it seems to have something to do with the nubile presence of Linda (Kim Darby), with whom...
...with Saran Wrap and the exposed flesh with grease; then he wraps him up in gauze bandages soaked in liquid Hydro-Stone. For the model, this mummification can be an itchy, nasty and claustrophobic experience. One of Segal's models, the wife of New York Taxi Mogul Robert Scull, panicked inside the cast and had to be cut out, leaving her Courreges boots behind...
Transparent and Purple. "Mystery is the important thing," says Ethel Scull, Pop-art patron and wife of the owner of a fleet of New York City taxicabs. "I'll never, never wear a see-through without a body stocking," she insists, remembering the passing pedestrian who had one look through her first one before "his glasses fell off." Model Penelope Tree substitutes a satin bra for the body stocking, refusing to go without anything. "It's hard enough getting people to pay attention to what you're saying," she says, "without focusing their attention on your bosom...
Radar Screen. For wearers and spectators alike, the nude look presents certain problems. "If you run while wearing see-throughs," says Penelope Tree, "you have to be careful. You could overflow like warm Camembert cheese." There are the oglers, against whom Mrs. Scull protects herself by taking off her glasses: "That way, being nearsighted, I can't see people's reactions." And there are those for whom ogling is not enough. Photographer Susan Greenburg-Wood wore her first see-through to a Lincoln Center benefit in Manhattan; all was well until intermission, when suddenly, she recalls, "one woman...
...Publisher Eugene Schwartz, for one, is fascinated. "Painting has been getting complicated again, brushwork and expressionism are coming back," he says, citing the expressively sprayed canvases of Jules Olitski and the newly fluid pictures of Larry Poons. "New art is disturbing to everybody," warns a big pop collector, Robert Scull, who is also a major patron of the newer art. "It takes a realignment of your computer to like it." Says Jan Van der Marck, director of Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art: "They are doing just what the pop artists did; they are pushing the limits...