Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WILLEM DE KOONING-Stone, 48 East 86th. Manhattan's Dutch-born modern master tries on lines the way poets try out words. Because he begins with plan and ends with chaotic inspiration, De Kooning's first drawing retrospective provides illuminating clues to the natural forms that shape his abstractions, to the explicitness with which he builds ambiguity, to how his art is made. Forty-odd drawings in charcoal, pencil, pastel, sumi-ink and Sapolin include classical studies of the '30s, samplings from the "Boudoir" and "Attic" series, sketches for Pink Angel (the painting that reportedly copped...
...Adrienne's design ($25) dips waist-deep in both front and back; Formfit's Designer model ($9) is cut to accommodate the squared plunge; the Lady Marlene version ($11) drops only halfway, has vertical boning to shape a neat torso. Custom-made models sell for upwards of $35. For women of less ample means, Warner lines its demi-bra ($8) with contoured foam...
Tocsin will now explore such problems as segregation and unemployment, concentrating on their relation to the arms industry and to other economic and vested political interests that the group feels might shape foreign policy decisions. Action is now being planned in areas as different as American policy in Viet Nam and the unemployment crisis in Hasard...
...watched Thomas jump in practice, was appalled by what he saw. The athlete who once held the world record at 7 ft. 3¾ in. could barely clear 6 ft. 8 in. "He was so far out of shape," says Duffy, "that one of my Holy Cross jumpers, a six-eight man at best, was beating him consistently." Almost at once, Duffy spotted a flaw in Thomas' motion. "John had picked up the bad habit of almost stopping and arching backward, right at the bar," he says. "He was losing all his spring that...
...Hearst's tabloid Mirror, first casualty of the strike, released figures that added up to a graphic explanation of how the long, enforced silence had hastened the paper's end. The Mirror was already in distressing shape when the strike began; its last profit...