Word: sculling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
...House Gang is a sequel to the earlier collection of articles. Wolfe, with characteristic flair, romps through such diverse subjects as Hugh Hefner, Natalie Wood, Marshall McLuhan, the California surfing cult, Carol Doda (the topless go-go girl with silicone-inflated breasts), the pop art collectors Bob and Spike Scull and teenage London society. What he achieves is an impressionistic interpretation of new status symbols and contemporary life styles...
...marched on-camera sporting American Designer Oleg Cassini's version of the Mao in dark blue whipcord. At a recent party given for Manhattan Pop Artist James Rosenquist, Metropolitan Museum Director Thomas Hoving arrived wearing one by Cardin in black velvet-and looked positively clerical alongside Hostess Ethel Scull's daisy-topped maxiskirt. Still, when Bonwit's advertised Cardin's new $150 Nehru blazer, the Fifth Avenue store sold out its entire stock of 100 jackets the very first...