Word: shocks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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JAMES ROSENQUIST-Green, 15 West 57th. This former billboard painter is quite accustomed to seeing and painting things larger than life: his latest three-dimensional work is unfortunately a gross exaggeration. The flat canvases with their toothy grins and giant tire treads had more shock; his newest "new realism" suffers from artificiality. Through Feb. 8. Down the street at Janis, 15 East 57th, Rosenquist, Jim Dine, George Segal and Claes Oldenburg create "Four Environments." Each artist has a room of his own: Oldenburg, for example, a bedroom, Segal a movie theater. Through...
...year. Among new composers, Jerry Goldsmith, 34 (Lonely Are the Brave, Freud), and Jazzman John Lewis, 43 (No Sun in Venice, Odds Against Tomorrow), are the most admired. The young writers have completely abandoned the customary 100-piece orchestra of Tiomkin's heyday; for next month's Shock Treatment, Goldsmith uses a chamber orchestra and a chilling array of electronic instruments...
Doermann stated that most of the increase has occured since December 23. He speculated that many applications had been delayed because of the shock of the President's death and the late Thanksgiving this year...
...year needed was a final record to top it off-and last week the record was assured. Despite six fewer shopping days between Thanksgiving and Christmas, despite the earlier pessimism of many merchants, despite even the shock of President Kennedy's assassination, Christmas sales set an all-time high. Last year's record was broken by Dec. 21, when sales were running 5% above a year ago. Christmas figures from many big cities showed the extent of the gain: 10% over last year in Houston, 5% in Boston, 3% in Chicago, 9% in Detroit, 9% in New York...
...German elections two years hence. But the Common Market reached agreement on common prices and policies for rice, beef and dairy products, the three most important agricultural categories at stake in the 14-day discussions. The Germans, who had opposed lowering prices right away as too great a shock to their inefficient farmers, won the right to continue to subsidize their dairy farmers a while longer and to buy Danish beef until 1965. In return for Germany's agreement to lower farm prices, the French agreed to lowering the Six's external industrial tariffs at the upcoming "Kennedy...