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...derived from my feeling of despair. Realism is best suited to convey the frightening idiosyncrasies of our time." So his work makes up a chamber of all-American horrors: lifesize, startlingly real figures cast in Fiberglas and polyester resin. A group of Bowery winos sprawl filthily on a littered sidewalk; a dead motorcyclist, hideously mangled, lies pinned under his wrecked machine. In Tourists, Hanson extends his distaste to Mr. and Mrs. Middle America on vacation somewhere in the sun: he with his Hawaiian shirt and baggy Bermuda shorts and festooned camera equipment, she with her blue sunglasses, red slacks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Out of the Junkyard | 1/4/1971 | See Source »

Special Sheriff Ralph Bens ordered police in when the crowd blocked the sidewalk and obstructed movers who were loading the last pieces of Cunningham's furniture into a truck hired by Brazao...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tenant Leader Is Evicted | 12/17/1970 | See Source »

...lovingly sanitized. Don't bother looking for a speck of dirt or any antique grime cherished from the old Bick era. A dark blue rug covers the ungodly Bick tile, and a double set of glass doors throws up a space-lock between the dining room and the filthy sidewalk ecology outside. The fancy Shakespearean name and the fleur-de-lis table mats won't fool too many patrons: this place is about as Elizabethan as Dayton, Ohio...

Author: By Thomas Geoghegan, | Title: The Square As You Like It | 12/8/1970 | See Source »

...Emil Mosbacher Jr. * Said Martha to an interviewer last September: "The academic society is responsible for all troubles in this country. They don't know what's going on. They don't have a right to talk. It makes me sick at my stomach. They're a bunch of sidewalk diplomats that don't know the score...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Martha Mitchell's View From The Top | 11/30/1970 | See Source »

...book, The Greening of America (currently churning off the Random House presses at a rate of 15,000 a week), that the machinery of Corporate America is destroying itself and that we should all await with him the inevitable emergence-like grass through the cracks in the sidewalk-of a new Consciousness of love, blue jeans and rock music, a Consciousness III. Says the Times: "Youth culture has gotten its very own Norman Vincent Peale." They were not referring to William Sloan Collin, Yale's famous Radical Chaplain...

Author: By Michael E. Kinsley, | Title: Cabbages and Kingman The Greening of Yale | 11/21/1970 | See Source »

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