Word: sidney
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sidney J. Freedberg, professor of Fine Arts, was named vice-chaiman of the Committee for the Rescue of Italian Art, which is trying to raise part of the $130 million needed to restore art treasures in Northern Italy...
...Sidney Goldfarb '64 dominates the issue. A limecolored center section presents seventeen poems by the incomparable Sidney -- the barging personalist, the grizzled residumorph of a fat-boy complex who garnished two hundred pounds of soul with a Rasputinian beard, and converted a certain respect for violence into a poetry that is as idealistic as it is aggressive, and as sweet-tempered as it is visceral. The poems are followed by appreciative essays by Richard Tillinghast and Robert Grenier; both talk extraordinarily good sense about a poet who is so skilled in the arts of Personality that he sometimes denies...
Ostensibly to forestall criticism of its exhibition of "Erotic Art 66," Manhattan's Sidney Janis Gallery covered its catalogue with cameos of past erotic works, showing men and women in sexual embraces from prehistoric rock painting to Picasso. But there was no such thing inside the gallery. There was a movie of a nude woman, but she was taking a shower in black goo. Elsewhere there was a single bosom blown up to pop proportions, enlarged male genitals looming from plastic strips, and an assemblage, Green Table and Chairs, which showed two chairs, each with a single aperture, connected...
Died. Gus Edson, 65, cartoonist, who in 1935 switched from sports on the New York Daily News to comic strips when he took over The Gumps after the death of its creator, Sidney Smith, for the next 25 years kept the noisy ("Oh, Mini"), argumentative family (Andy, Min, Uncle Bim and Momma De Stross) yelling happily at one another until its popularity waned and he turned exclusively to Dondi, the sentimental story of an Italian waif in the U.S., currently in 138 newspapers; of a heart attack; in Stamford, Conn...
...Brando, drags him through a stream, and presses his forearm onto a scorpion during an Indian wrestling match, Brando survives to get away with the girl, get on his horse and get off a well-aimed parting shot. All the surprises in Appaloosa are visual ones, achieved by Director Sidney...